Word: yieldingness
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¶In New York, Secretary of the Treasury Mills opening the 33rd annual A. P. meeting told publishers pointedly that "credit and confidence" must solve the nation's troubles; that he, from his foretopmast view, saw signs of definite, if gradual, return of confidence. Pointing to the efforts of...
Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and...
Sounding a warning that liberal colleges are being crushed between university and high school, Dean Stoddart of the University of Pennsylvania, in yesterday's Herald-Tribune, lays the blame entirely on the college thresholds. He charges that instead of resisting the pressure intelligently, they are yielding to the tendency to...
Some (but only a few) of Author Spencer's sentences are as fearful & wonderful as any Author James ever spun: "She yet, however, hungrily clung to it, used it, developed it: it came nearer to anything else to yielding what she so deeply needed ; and if it fell to an...
The Department of Agriculture last week estimated the 1931 cotton crop at 15.684,000 bales as compared with 13,932,000 last year. Despite a 10 percent cut in acreage (TIME, July 20) excellent weather conditions had produced a crop yielding 85 Ib. per acre, 31 Ib. above average and...