Word: succumb
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such a system is entirely foreign to the theory of the constitution. Our whole system of checks and balances would be destroyed. (a) The executive would be merged in the legislative. (b) The weaker of the Houses of Congress would succumb to the stronger. (c) The equal representation of the states will be lost-Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, February, 1886; Von Holst Constitutional Law S25 S26; Hare Constitution al Law, pp. 175-180; Nation, 28-243; Pomeroy Constitutional...
...purpose to show that such practice would increase the chances of victory, but we do not mean to say that we should always beat Yale if allowed to practice with professionals, nor always succumb if the permission is refused. Practice with a superior team is always of the greatest benefit...
...going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate as to college custom and precedent, we will succumb. And in the second place, if differences of usage on the mere name of an athletic organization can possibly be compared with inaccurate, ridiculous and often even irritating reports about individual students comprising that and many other organizations, then we will doubly humiliate ourselves. But as the case...
...from him until the ninth inning, when Tilden got in a rattling two baser, and came home on hits made by Nichols and Allen. Smith got his base on balls, thus making three men on bases. Foster, who followed, was unable to hit the ball, and Harvard had to succumb with three men left on bases...
...reported, and it is doubtful if the interior can be restored for less than $15,000. The fire-proof quality of the structure is the only thing that saved it from complete destruction, and a careful inspection renders it little short of marvellous that the entire building did not succumb to the flames...