Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many an ambitious corporation promoter thought, if these two eminently successful selling organizations were merged. The idea is not new. Five years ago it was presented to Charles A. Whelan and David A. Schulte. Astute men both, they had long known the economies of a merger. But neither would yield the identity of his business. When the proposition was laid before David A. Schulte that he sell out to United Cigars Stores, he replied, in effect, "I'll buy out myself, United Cigar Stores, if they will sell." That meant stalemate. Nor have subsequent merger negotiations come to anything...
...pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships; some may be frozen tightly until spring...
...champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain off-stage, though not without cutting remarks on law in general...
...matter where Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins goes he finds friends to greet him with that affectionate regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
...issue, consisting of 30-year 7% bonds was offered at 94 to yield 7½%, and proved so attractive as to be oversubscribed within 30 minutes in Manhattan at prices which rose...