Word: yieldingness
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Except for such demonstrations as the 1932 Cockcroft-Walton experiment, the only way to get a fusion reaction is to raise the temperature. The hotter a material gets, the faster its atoms move. If it gets hot enough, they may hit one another so hard that they combine into larger...
Though these changes should do much to improve the fine system, one loophole remains in the Lamont laws. Because of the rate at which fines mount up, it is often cheaper to report a book lost and pay only for its replacement value. Accumulated fines can easily exceed the price...
To anyone who was listening, Berlin proved one thing: Russia has no intention of yielding her grip on Germany−now or at any time in the foreseeable future. Hope of agreement died early in Berlin; the West must now press ahead with its long-postponed needs, chief among them...
Most other Saskatchewan wells yield heavy black crude, rather than the lighter, and more valuable oil produced in Alberta. The Smiley strike, yielding a 32-to-36°-gravity light oil, has given Saskatchewan oilmen reason to hope that, in quality as well as quantity, their wells may some day...
¶ There is one underlying cause common to every case of true homosexuality: the individual has failed to "identify," as psychiatrists put it, with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy...