Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion let me say that it is say opinion that anyone who is under the impression that Harvard is a hot bed of heathenish leaguse her says re use to succumb to he hell fire and brimestone type of religion with its intolerance and bigotry, must either be a very poor student of men or mast have his cerebellum "Considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures." Kenneth Kennedy...
...from which she could not possibly escape. The Triple Alliance was weakened by the practical withdrawal of Italy and the weakness of Austria. With Russia on the east, France on the west, and England in control of the seas, the statesmen of these countries saw that Germany must inevitably succumb to their policy...
Today the course menu is rather drear and I am half tempted to succumb to my more domestic inclinations and stay within the bricked recesses of my Yard abode. However, I shall probably be present at Professor Tatlock's lecture at 9 o'clock in Sever 30 on "Native Influences on the Restoration Drama" because of my already evidenced fondness for that period. I expect to be well up and about for Professor Copeland's discourse on Samuel Johnson, which the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric will deliver in Sever 11 for the benefit of those in English...
...stretched to a hundred times its size without breaking under the strain. It must be just as effective in the new shape as in the old, and must carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many new army activities born since the Great...
Cobra. Rudolph Valentino, in the role of a very good young man who simply will not succumb to the dizzy wiles of Nita Naldi, has little to do except look pretty. Which, his income tax report will show, he does about as well as anyone in the world...