Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not indicate the true state of affairs, for twice this season have the Tigers bowed to defeat, while only once this fall has an invading team carried off honors at Cambridge. Registering three overwhelming victories against Swarthmore, Colgate, and Virginia, Coach Roper's men were forced to yield to the attacks of the mighty Navy and Chicago elevens...
...railroads are standing on a solid moral and legal rock when they ask that the provisions of the Transportation Act (which calls upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to so co-relate wages and rates as to yield 5 1-2 percent net on property values) should be carried out, and all the clamoring of greedy shipping interests for reduced freight rates and of purblind labor leaders for maintaining high war wages, could in my opinion have little effect on the situation. Conditions under which railroad operation would yield less than 5 1-2 percent net on property values, would...
...opportunity for learning, which the University offers he compared to a machine, and declared that it was meant to be used, and used intelligently by students to cultivate their minds to yield bumper crops for the country and humanity "Throughout the generations", he said, "Harvard has proved to the country the worth of educating its leaders...
...without being cellared in cement but when it is cellared in cement it stands the more solidly. So the savior faire which grows out of the associations peculiar to the university has a breadth and depth and stability such as the more haphazard contacts of the outside world never yield. The round of human nature being to so large a degree the writer's habitat the college man enters it by the door instead of through the window or down the chimney...
...medical student thus finds his time wholly occupied from nine until five or six o'clock with a fixed routine of lecture and laboratory, though chiefly laboratory, and this persists for two years,--, although in second half of the second year the laboratory exercise begins to yield to the hospital and the patient. But now the attention is merely turned from test-tube and laboratory tissue to another object of study, in which the student becomes an observer of living man rather than of the lower animals or of dissection and microscopic pathology. Students usually consider that their most difficult...