Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman theologians who follow the rigidly conservative views of the Holy Office. Both sides agree that the Bible cannot err. The theologians, concerned primarily with preserving doctrine from heresy, believe that the Bible should be analyzed with reverent caution, using at most the tools of grammar and philology to yield the meaning of words. Scholars believe that more is needed: the Bible, they say, is not history in the modern sense, but a collection of books whose meaning can only be unearthed after comparing it with other literatures, using archaeological discoveries to test its facts, and attempting to discover...
...floods destroyed by winter. Today, more than two-thirds of its 900-mile length is virtually one tamed and tranquil lake. Hundreds of recreation sites occupy the valley's 10,000 miles of shoreline. Its waters provide one of the world's finest inland recreation areas, yield fishermen some 10,000,000 Ibs. a year of 23 species of fish...
...answer is probably yes. "Show a Welshman i.ooi exits, one of which is marked SELF-DESTRUCTION," says Mankiewicz, "and he will go right through that door." The outcome of the Taylor-Burton game must inevitably yield up a loser. If he should ever marry her, he will be the Oxford boy who became the fifth husband of the Wife of Bath. If she loses him, she loses her reputation as a fatal beauty, an all-consuming maneater, the Cleopatra of the 20th century...
Help for Milquetoast. Polyethylene film has been used for years by truck farmers and up-to-the-minute home gardeners as a replacement for such traditional mulches as straw or sawdust. Spread on the ground in early spring, it has doubled the yield of tomatoes, squash or muskmelons. But as long as it had to be laid out by hand, it was far too expensive for such big-time crops as cotton. And cotton, which is one of the milquetoasts of the plant world, cries out for all the help...
...commercial tracts in the national forest grew about one billion more board feet of lumber than was cut. Existing mines are able to produce excess supplies of almost all indigenous metals and minerals. Finally, an Interior Department study has shown that proper management of present grazing lands could yield in fifty years a 250% increase of forage...