Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is but one bitter fruit in the overflowing cup Harvard may bring forth a future Gilbert: Tony's rival may be nodding in some Churca Street stable and some Fogg aesthete may design a bathroom to suit de Mille's taste--but never, on never, never, can Harvard yield a Greta Garbo...
...Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand. I use three...
...bring the charming graces of femininity. The ideas of March are here and with them the anachronistic April hours, but even such dark events as these must give way to the regiment of women. Lesser problems, such as Metal physical poetry, the Critique of Pure Reason and economic involutions, yield to greater what are her favorite flowers, and will there be a moon...
...yield to fashionable conventions, it seems to me that the theatres are as much devoted to public use as anything well can be. ... I am far from saying that I think this particular law a wise and rational provision. That is not my affair. But if the people of the State of New York speaking by their authorized voice say that they want it, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent their having their will...
...filmy pajamas, in scantily cut bathing-suits, in practical running shorts and in ordinary clothes, 25,000 men and women ran scrambling forward at this signal to stake out claims in the Grasfontein diamond field (TIME, Feb. 7) that promises to yield $5,000,000 in hard, white, transparent, keep-sake-rocks...