Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round Three. As the Latins refused to yield to his demands, the little lame Yorkshireman waxed in spleen, finally dived into a clinch. In arguing against Mr. Snowden a whole sheaf of figures had been cited by Finance Minister Henri Cheron, and the Frenchman punched home his point with a citation from the British Balfour Note...
...Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway's help, the two largest countries on the globe last week got back on speaking terms...
...Chicago property. The Trust has developed many a Chicago subdivision, has bought up many a Gold Coast home and erected apartment buildings on the sites. Thus all U. S. citizens with $1,000 or multiples thereof have the opportunity to make a conservative short-term investment with no tremendous yield but with almost governmental safety...
...convention. But Dean Earl C. Galloway of the College of Pharmacy was there as his defender. He heard Dr. Shields charge that Dr. Wayman mismanaged the University, that he claimed academic degrees which were not rightly his. But when he tried to answer the charges, Dr. Shields would not yield the floor. Finally the Dean was allowed to speak, and then he found that most of the delegates would not listen to him. He therefore left the convention and started another at the Hotel Tourraine...
...renascence of Nature. March is the time-when-the-green-lizards-come-out. Indians used to dance an eagle dance, splendid and feathered, imitating an eagle's swirling, pointing to the six points of the Indian compass (north, south, east, west, above, below), praying to Nature to yield tobacco and corn...