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...conventional times or in conventional positions . . . but they are lost in an emergency or in creative tasks at any time." The times Neville Chamberlain came upon as Prime Minister were not conventional ones. They saw superannuation and complacency go down before threadbare desperation, Christian morality and capitalist economy succumb to the hungry rule of tooth and claw. They saw Anschluss, Munich, Prague, Poland, Norway...
...microbes which take the gentian violet and iodine stain developed by Hans Christian Joachim Gram of Denmark. Gramicidin protects mice against huge doses of virulent pneumococci and all the other blue-staining germs so far tested. Since the tubercle bacillus belongs to this group, it seems almost certain to succumb to gramicidin...
...Varsity hockey team held off a highly rated Yale sextet for two periods in one of the fastest games of the Crimson season, at New Haven Saturday night, only to succumb to a 3 to 1 defeat before an onrush of last canto KB attacks...
...Central Park who is a ghost of both past and future, grows years older with every few months' gap between meetings. Through drawings and portraits of her the artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan...
This disregards, of course, the man who can produce a legitimate reason for tutoring--backwardness, illness, other activities. To him the University-sponsored Supervising Bureau offers cheaper and more efficient help; and even those who get a vicarious thrill out of "intellectual brothels" should succumb to the argument of a fuller purse and higher grades. As far as all other men are concerned, they stand only to lose by the garblings and the false emphases and the generally confusing misinterpretations of Square authoring. It offers a good which is at best unreliable, and which is much more than likely dangerous...