Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pospisil took a short cut. Said he: "As there are a number of disputed items between us as to the capital sum of the debt, we believe that, instead of entering upon the very large expense and delay involved on both sides by a reaccounting, we are prepared to yield on some considerable part of these items and to propose to you a round sum of settlement-that is, that we should consider the capital of the debt as at June...
...Communist and a true believer in Internationalism, do not speak with the the intention of offending but with the intention of giving a shock to your mentality. I, for one, will not yield to terrorism. I am going to carry subversive propaganda, revolutionary propaganda, Communist propaganda, international propaganda, with the assistance of the Russians and the Chinese and the Germans and the British...
...Seip Mound, regular in shape* (240 by 160 by 28 ft. high), is a large one and when fair weather permits further excavations next summer, should yield treasures comparable to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in archaeological interest. The chief importance of last week's discoveries: 1) Cloths had never before been found in Mound Builder tombs; 2) the absence of weapons near the skeletons bore out the theory that the Mound Builder tombs; 2) the abgarded as ancestors of the Indians, were peaceable folk, more devoted to arts than...
...steel mills now make cement out of their "slag," which was formerly thrown away as waste. Gases arising from coal-burning, instead of being allowed to escape, are now distilled in by-product coke ovens, and yield petrol, benzol and other derivative products employed in explosives, dyes...
...what cases has the yield of the land been increased...