Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...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...
...Oxford and Cambridge will remain forever secure in their traditions. The English are more conservative than we, and their traditions are deeper-rooted than ours. Consequently their universities are enjoying, or at any rate having, a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb! Slowly but irresistibly the change will be wrought, and Oxford and Cambridge will be offering their graduate course in business, their higher instruction in industrial administration. The modern gods 'Efficiency' and 'Utility' will get them...