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...having a smooth course," Walost, said ad pointed out that Haines is already 72. "For anyone elderly the outlook is not" as good as for a younger man. . . you never know what's going to happen; he may pull through all right, or he may succumb...
...never went beyond Chickamauga. Instead, he watched 112 out of the 120 men in his company succumb to malaria, typhoid and dysentery in Georgia. That caused him to worry about other things besides the classics. "Why had this government of ours rushed gaily into . . . war . . .? Why was no attention ever given to the problems of sanitation ? Why were we left with obsolete rifles . . .?" To answer some of these questions, Johnson took up economics...
...little espionage is not unusual among delegates. Shaffer thinks that in Michigan there are now 33 uncommitted delegates ("We have organized a group to keep one another posted"), but suspects that at least a dozen of them will succumb to the blandishments of their fallen brethren (i.e., the committed) before July...
...sister Ellen with parasitic humility. When they had babies, she came for long visits to help around the house. Soon she was there to stay, slavishly waiting upon and subtly corrupting her brother-in-law. Still prim & proper, she cast her body before him, and while David did not succumb, he was vain enough to enjoy her worship. By hints he urged her not to marry, and she was delighted to obey...
Paul Robeson and William E. Du Bois would certainly have offended a good many people if they had kept their speaking engagements here last week. It is to the credit of this University that once again it did not succumb to that disease of spinelessness so prevalent today...