Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio State University with the approval of the Department of Agriculture. In 1926 Mr. Marshall won the award with a yield of 168.66 bushels to the acre on a ten-acre plot; in 1925 with a yield of 160.1 bushels to the acre...
...there was a close feeling of solidarity between the members of the orthodox church. But her decision to draw the sword in 1914 was due less to her sympathy for Serbia than to a desire to restore her prestige; and it was precisely because she had yielded to the pressure of Austria and Germany at the time of the Bosnian crisis that it was considered impossible to yield to their pressure again...
December, January, February, March. A thousand golf courses lie in expensive desuetude. Eighteen thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for an early spring. Two hundred thousand livers, in torsos bound to northern swivel chairs, become torpid, cause unfortunate changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three...
...Beethoven in Valhalla might smile a trifle bitterly to see his earthly origin made so much of. Immortals, he might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France...
...Steel Corp. having declared a 40% stock dividend, President Coolidge, among 90,000 others, heard the news with personal interest. Holder of some 50 shares, he will receive 20 more, the dividend taking that form. It is estimated the shares should yield a profit of from...