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...along with the Third Avenue "El" and Lincoln Square, this world is to yield to progress. But it will take longer to vanquish the hurdy-gurdy spirit of the pushcart markets, Robert Moses notwithstanding...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Market Days | 1/16/1958 | See Source »

...There is little time. Within a few years the Soviet Union will possess the means to vanquish the U.S. We must act now. Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Hard Doctrine | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...ounce of B1 trickled out at the other end. Williams and the Merck-men tackled the job of synthesis, and in 1936 succeeded in making B1 easily and cheaply from simple organic compounds. Merck went into big-scale production. Result: medicine at last had a weapon to vanquish beriberi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...positive side, he keeps his credo short and sharp: "Trust only the men who laugh with relish. I trust Shakespeare more than Corneille, Mark Twain more than Henry James, Robert Frost more than T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway more than Thomas Mann. They do not expect to vanquish folly from the world overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Times Square Thoreau | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Yale's powerful swimming team had to come from behind to vanquish Harvard, 53 to 22, Saturday afternoon in the Blockhouse pool...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Yale Overpowers Basketball Team, 84-47, Swimmers 53-22 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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