Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms of Boston maidens under the bare trees of Walden Pond is beyond our comprehension; how anyone can do anything with one of those Boston maidens even if he were to succumb is still more a matter for wonder...
First scene is laid in the counting house of Gideon Bloodgood (hiss!), a merciless moneychanger who is about to succumb to the panic of 1837. Although not one line of the old script has been changed, Manhattan spectators, aware of last year's Bank of U. S. failure (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), will believe that a modern interpolation must have been made when the collapse of the "United States Bank"? an institution of President Van Buren's time?is spoken...
...Author. A citizen more of Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept...
...think you had better succumb, Come, come...
...matter of fact in some cases a week's break in training is beneficial rather than harmful. In addition, with the coming of intra-mural athletics the stress on varsity activity will probably be greatly lessened and the spring trip and vacation practice at home may both succumb to lack of interest...