Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...
...serenity be disturbed by the discovery of unaccountable Balkan visas on Loveday's passport, the girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian man-and-wife passport. Loveday persuades him to let her impersonate the better half of the joint document, but Italian border officials find her far too beautiful...
...from Turkey goes far to explain the enigma. No doubt it was the abolition of the harems some years ago that enabled the Turkish male to discard his savage mien and fighting figure. With but one wife to engage his attentions, he can afford to neglect his diet and yield to the less violent diversions of the cinema...
...Fascist march on Rome was wholly militant and partially armed. It compelled a quavering cabinet to yield, to vanish. Very different was a march upon Bucharest last week, staged by 60,000 peaceful peasants. Their revered leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, threatened no more than that the peasants would wait quietly in the streets for four days, meanwhile petitioning Premier Vintila Bratiano to resign...
Second of the bona fide sciences to yield under pressure of the spreading tutorial system is the Geology Department. The creation two years ago of the Department of Bio-chemical Sciences, removing as it did the grievous errors in pre-medical education, was yet only a slight breach in what seemed an impregnable wall. Then came, in April of last year, the announcement that the Department of Biology would begin the following academic year under the tutorial system. The decision announced today gives an appearance of progression to these events, a progression that can be concluded only with the adoption...