Word: yieldingness
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And this belief was expressed in the simple sentence you chose: "Men die in fighting, but nations die only in yielding." . . .
Yet fervor is not a substitute for strength. Cut off from reinforcement from his allies, cut off from any supplies-ammunition, guns and tanks-cut off in fact from any aid except such little air support as the British could send from Greece's small waterlogged airfields, General Simovitch...
Racing in the annual Schussverein race at Bear Mountain, in Hartlett, New Hampshire yesterday, the Harvard Varsity Ski team placed second out of a field of thirteen entrants, yielding first place to Dartmouth.
Since, under the ominous phrasing of Article I of the armistice, the Government of the Reich has all the rights of an occupying power, Petain cannot help yielding to any German demands which come under this provision, Professor Morize believes.
Ted Schoenberg, Dick Thomas, Lee Ackerman, and Dick Davidson were all able to hold out for decisions. Thomas put up the closest fight of the afternoon, yielding only by a referee's decision of 11 to 7. Schoenberg's scrap, which was also very close, represents his first defeat since...