Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand that this ideal must yield to the goal of specialization? Is Newman's "Idea of a University" now outmoded--is "Useful Knowledge" to supplant "Liberal Knowledge?" Will Harvard now dilute the humanistic ideal of "a Knowledge, which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor" by stressing vocational training through specialization? Is it now time to de-emphasize a tradition which fostered greatness in men such as Emerson, Thoreau, T.S. Eliot, William James, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy...
Sloan Jr., 89, who merged his small New Jersey roller-bearing plant into G.M. in 1916, later became its chief executive and brought order to its cha otic divisions. Today he is a vigorous member of G.M.'s finance committee -and has 688,046 shares, which will yield him $3.1 million this year. Close behind, with 645,176 shares, is John Lee Pratt, 84, who came to the com pany from Du Pont in 1919 and rose to become a G.M. vice president. Now a retired Virginia farmer who shuns publicity, Pratt so successfully keeps out of public view...
...team parlay of Cornell and Dartmouth, which would yield about a 200 per cent profit, is an investment which makes buying AT&T stock look like a wild speculation...
...wasteland. What life survived the initial holocaust, it was agreed, would surely succumb to the longer-lasting hazards of atomic radiation. So far, the best proving grounds for such theories are Bikini and Eniwetok, the two Pacific atolls that were clobbered by some 60 atomic explosions, from the low-yield nuclear blasts that hit Bikini back in 1946 to the mighty hydrogen bombs let loose on Bikini and Eniwetok between...
Miller hopes his dramas will yield more than that "proper purgation of pity and fear" that Aristotle called catharsis. He hopes they will bring enlightenment to his audience. Peter Skolnik's production is loaded with pity and fear. He has put together an altogether stunning show. But understanding there is none. I left the Loeb as confused as Eddie Carbone...