Word: yieldingness
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If horsepower alone were required in an airplane engine the designer's problem would be simple. He need then only build bigger & bigger engines, yielding more & more power, higher & higher speed. But for flying purposes weight, head-resistance and fuel consumption must be reckoned in the same equation with...
William Mathews Sullivan, a music-minded lawyer, made public the details of Augustus Juilliard's will the day before John Erskine announced the Juilliard Foundation's gift. For two weeks Lawyer Sullivan had withheld his statement waiting for the Juilliard to act. Then he attacked the Foundation for...
"Strict enforcement of legal rights brings about foreclosures, forced sales and losses to the owner and mortgagees alike. Those familiar with the present situation can see no reason why mortgages should yield 5½% when other securities are yielding 4% and banks find difficulty in lending call money at 1...
North Carolina prospered under Dr. Chase's ten-year presidency and he received many an offer-like that of the presidency of the University of Oregon- promising better pay than his $10,000 a year at Chapel Hill. He accepted none until 1930, yielding then to the University of...
Five years ago, Harold Nicolson wrote a good book with a bad title (Some People). Public Faces is another such-a more ingenious and less amusing satire on the dignified, dangerous asininities of diplomacy and also a book that deserves a better name. Author Nicolson retails his solemn state secrets...