Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retire as Viceroy (TIME, Nov. 9). He had every reason to desire that this most dangerous of recent Indian scandals should be cleared up in a manner creditable to himself. There were those, moreover, who hinted that the Viceroy bears the Maharaja a grudge because he would not yield a point of precedence at official functions to the former Alice Edith Cohen, now Lady Reading. Last week all the ramifications of this affair suddenly quieted...
...LaCoste. Richards pulled off his sweater, made two errors, was aced twice by the small Frenchman, whose face showed all too clearly his partiality for the vices that infect his country and capital city. Richards took the next three games. Ah, that was better! A clean-living American would yield to no such opponent. Richards was at the net now, was volleying crisp shots to right and left. He made nine service aces in the first set. But a series of lucky placements by LaCoste, and the evident willingness of the Frenchman to spend all his reduced vitality...
...counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
...whether the additional expenditure would yield results sufficient to justify itself is an open question. That a jealous Congress and equally egotistic states would care to see the powers of the present Bureau of Education greatly expanded seems unlikely...
According to the valuation of the roads by the Interstate Commerce Commission the 1925 earnings are a yield of 5%; according to the reckoning of the railroads (by book value), 4.83%. Fourteen Class I railroads had net losses during the year, of which five are in the East, eight in the West, one in the South...