Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall file suit against Mgr. Ladeuze and carry the fight to the highest court in Belgium. I shall continue to resist with the full conviction that if the Belgians yield this question, they will be yielding to the Germans...
...only brown turbanite in the parade. Lightly as the Bosses appraise the worth of women in politics, they saw to it that Houston need yield nothing to Kansas City in the number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
...Italians may colonize and thus peacefully penetrate the Dalmatian coast of Jugoslavia, which lies directly across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. For three years the Jugoslav Parliament has delayed to ratify the Treaty of Nettuno. Last week the hot-head students believed that Prime Minister Vukitchevitch was about to yield to Italian pressure and press for ratification. Mounted ominously the hereditary hatred of rival peoples who face each other across a narrow sea. Suddenly came an insult to fire the charge of hatred. Jugoslav correspondents reported from the Italian port of Zara that a convention of Italian war veterans...
...like a sparrow chirping for an eagle, he voiced the fairly temperate demands of II Duce: 1) Austria to supply a new flag; 2) Austrian soldiers to salute it; 3) Formal apology. Gruff Governor Stumpf, stumped, wired to Chancellor & Foreign Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul Riccardi & staff gave the famed rising Fascist cheer, "eia-eia-eia-alala!" for Signor Mussolini. Diplomats deemed the swiftness...
...cane for general planting on the more fertile lands, Hrvd No. 12.029 is, without doubt one of the very best varsities ever produced, regarding both field tonnage and percentage of sucrose in the juice. The average yield of cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal...