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Word: submits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the result of what she refers to proudly as "my operation." Some years ago famed Dr. Serge Voronov of Paris advertised for an elderly female willing to submit to a transfer of monkey glands. Only one person in the world was adventurous enough to seek the fountain of youth under the surgeon's guidance-Mrs. King. The resultant publicity helped "make" Dr. Voronov. It delighted Mrs. King. It was like being before the public again. Whenever she walked out on the boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Scores of U. S. citizens under 30 years of age submit, each year, their best work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prix de Rome | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...19th Century the Anglo-Saxon countries were the most liberal in the world. The wind has turned, the English are less free and the Americans are enslaved. Some devil has got them to open the gates of hell. To every traveler, who is forced to submit to the most humiliating experiences from the moment he arrives in America until he leaves, the Statue of Liberty cannot be anything but a farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Humiliating Experiences | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...putting on the front page cover the picture of the man I believe will rank with Columbus, none other than Lindbergh. There is no use of my stating what I think of him here, however. He typifies all that good American manhood and boyhood stands for today. And I submit that your Mr. Know-it-all, who comments on John Muller's letter [TIME, June 20] should be ashamed of himself, having placed on the cover page of TIME pictures of several foreign and other uninteresting persona rather than our own Colonel Lindbergh. I think that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vive l'Audace! | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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