Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...workmen on the new recitation hall at Yale have struck, and work has been suspended for several days. The contractors refused to yield in any way to the demands of the strikers, and have engaged non-union men. No great trouble has been caused by the strike, however, and it is hoped to have the walls well up to the second story before it will be necessary to quit work on account of the weather...
...water rent would more than pay for supervision and repairs. The British Indian works yield 7 per cent. profit.- Stewart's Irrigation, p. 174; Parlia. Papers, 1886, XLIX...
...sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know the law will be enforced and for no other reason. We should in every case give obedience to the laws, and always hold them sacred. The choir rendered in an appropriate manner, the following anthems: "There is spring up a light for the righteous," by Armes...
...apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence, is the most hopeless of all sins. The choir sang anthems by Perceval and Barnby...
...Lick trust to the trustees of the University of California. Not more than $90,000 remain of the fund of $700,000 for astronomical purposes which had been increased to about $1,000,000 by the accumulation of interest. The balance in the hands of the trustees will yield not more than enough to pay the salary of the director. An appeal is to be made to the state authorities for a sufficient appropriation to give the institution funds to cover the annual expenses...