Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrible are the artificial epileptic fits forced by metrazol that practically no patients ever willingly submit. Common symptoms are a "flash of blinding light," an "aura of terror." One patient described the treatment as death "by the electric chair." Another asked piteously: "Doctor, is there any cure for this treatment...
...railroad tax compromise. Hague excuse: The bill was an attempted "tax steal." Roared he: "They are walking out with $35,000,000, and they are going to crucify Hague because he tells them they can't take that. . . . Mr. Railroads, just as long as the small taxpayers must submit, you'll submit. . . . Hague and Hagueism will haunt...
...broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit!" A Czech Legion of 1,000 to fight with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain...
...under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
Correspondents on their way to the front (see p. 58) also will submit to a double censorship: once in the field, again at the end of their special wire to London. To most newswriters it was clear last week that Britain's official press hierarchy, though changed in form, was little changed in substance, might prove no less muddleheaded than before...