Word: yieldingness
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¶ Momentous was the meeting of United States Steel Corp.'s directorate last week. Solemnly directors looked at the half year's result, a paltry $14,156,412 equal to 17? per share for the common against $6.46 per common share in the same period last year. Almost...
Nanking's purpose in thus yielding what Canton had already seized was merely to preserve intact, so far as possible, the complicated customs collection machinery in which numerous foreign experts function as important cogs. Cog A. C. E. Braud, the English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this...
The recently completed study of relative physiques of past and present college generations, besides being of value to the tailors, reveals definite tendencies worthy of a place in a much larger philosophy than that of mere spinal elongation. The policies of the sexes are evidently divergent, with little fusion, union...
Last week Tige was holding on to one of the J-3's ropes when the blimp took off on a practice voyage. Tige's jaws were clamped bulldoggedly; he soared aloft. Valiantly, for five minutes, he clawed space and the yielding rope for a foothold. At 400...
Up to the time of the North Carolina upset, the Harvard players had met and easily defeated nine opponents, blanking five of the teams and never yielding more than two points in any of the other four matches. The M. I. T. outfit, while expected to give the Crimson a...