Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...read the book and I don't want to spoil it by seeing the movie." That's the reaction of a great many people who see one of their cherished novels advertised at the local cinema. Too often does established fiction submit to a most exhaustive mincing in the name of "entertainment" on its way to the screen...
...Conquest of the Mediterranean. This would involve seizure of Gibraltar, either by Spain or by German troops operating through Spain. To bar Britain from a land base Portugal would be forced to join the Axis or submit to occupation...
...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
...Poll on conscription on which you rely is meaningless because it is weighted. You fail to point out that the question asked was: "Do you think every able-bodied man 20 years old should be made to serve in the army, navy or air force for one year?" I submit that this is a vastly different thing from asking the public whether it favors peacetime conscription, even of men from 21 to 31, as the Burke-Wadsworth bill is now worded. . . . TIME'S use of these polls as authority for the status of public sentiment on this question leaves...
...effect this week was the new Alien Registration Law, which requires every alien in the U. S. to register and submit to being fingerprinted. Failure to comply: a fine of $1,000, imprisonment for six months...