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...English are more conservative, and their traditions are deeeper rooted than ours. Consequently their Universities are enjoying a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRADITION STILL STRONG SAYS LEYS | 10/4/1923 | See Source »

...Mexicans are said to have been dispossessed of their property than U. S. citizens. If President Obregon intends to indemnify the citizens of the U. S., he can hardly fail to do the right thing by Mexican citizens. It seems, therefore, that the Mexican Treasury must groan or Obregon succumb to the jibes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexican Recognition | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots. The attitude of the Govern-ment was that it would not tolerate attacks on individual liberty from any source. As proof of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Camelots du Roi | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...Jess Willard, the shutting out of the Giants by decrepit, old Babe Adams, and a few other prodigies of belligerent age have featured sufficiently in newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini is a man of very uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: The Oldest Tenor | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...Seconds Succumb to Holy Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS MEN FIND TECH EASY AND TRIUMPH 8-1 | 5/24/1923 | See Source »

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