Word: yieldingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erring Woman. The elders of Islam decided it was time to put the women in their place. From the Council of Ulemas of Al Azhar University, the supreme court of Islamic law, recently came a stern fatwa (Koranic interpretation) of the 1,3OO-year-old teachings of the Prophet Mohammed...
Russell works long hours, carefully studies every important piece of legislation, has a knowledge of Senate rules unequaled on Capitol Hill. Once, yielding to Russell in debate, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas said: "I yield, though my knees are knocking, to one of the subtlest men and one of the...
Annual gifts and term grants from foundations we receive and welcome, but without capital funds for new buildings and without new endowment yielding a stable income, we cannot go forward with our work. . . Every proposal for expansion must be scrutinized with great care, therefore, to see whether or not it...
Particularly in the area of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Conant explained the University has been "conservative and cautious" in accepting short-term government contracts and outside grants. "Annual gifts and term grants from foundations we receive and welcome," he said, "but without capital funds for new buildings and...
School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians...