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...strong enough to stand on their own feet. They don't want their profits diluted by having to nurse " sick " lines. But the logic of necessity seems to be driving them to acceptance. Either they must agree to pool their mileage, rolling stock, service, and managing brains, or succumb to Government Ownership and political operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: 'Round the Circle in Policy | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...college men, supposedly thoughtful, reasoning and broadminded, sufficiently imaginative to see beyond the ends of their noses can succumb to the lure of the Ku Klux Klan, founded as it is no bitterness and opposition, is extraordinary. How a young man can give up his individuality, virtually sell his soul for $10, to an organization so full of hypocrisy, selfishness and the spirit of the Dark Ages, can only be accounted for on the grounds of its appeal to his racial or religious prejudices, or his love of the romantic and mysterious, or possibly his inborn American craving to belong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MOBILIZATION OF AMERICANS | 2/25/1922 | See Source »

...winner. In the final match, however, the greater experience of Maxwell Banks of Yale in tournament play, and his consequent steadliness proved too much for the Crimson player, who lost three straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. C.H. Hyams 3d '21 reached the third round only to succumb to Kirk Reid of Cornell, 6-1, 6-4. In the same round J.B. Fenno '21 was also eliminated by Banks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE MAKES SWEEP IN TENNIS | 9/24/1920 | See Source »

...Every ravine, every grove of trees, every secluded spot was packed to the limit with guns and shells, covered with canvas painted in the queer brown, green and black futurist style to avoid detection. Even white horses had to succumb to the brush of this futurist artist. Aeroplane hangars went up with astounding rapidity and French machines multiplied just as rapidly. The French control of the air during the last and vital month of preparation was one of the outstanding features of the whole thing. French planes hovered over the supply trains and bases, French planes swept across the lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 UNIVERSITY MEN REWARDED | 10/3/1916 | See Source »

...cheering section. When the team needed encouragement and support, which was about all the time during the game, the cheering section gave it with enthusiasm. The crippled and, at times, somewhat lackadaisical University eleven could not but respond and the "excuse-my-back" formation of Tufts had to succumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEERING AT THE GAME. | 10/19/1914 | See Source »

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