Word: yieldingness
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Thirty-six years ago, when Calvin Coolidge was a countrified freshman at Amherst, a train of cars creaked down from the Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore...
With $500,000 surplus cash to put aside until it is needed, a corporation usually does one of two things. It may bury the money, either in gilt-edged securities, yielding from 3 to 4%, or in its bank account, where it draws 2% as a commercial deposit. Or it...
For at least a twelvemonth enemies of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled...
"I shall file suit against Mgr. Ladeuze and carry the fight to the highest court in Belgium. I shall continue to resist with the full conviction that if the Belgians yield this question, they will be yielding to the Germans."
Consequences, in their full extent, are not to be perceived or judged by the reason alone. It is in agreement with this aphorism that the undergraduate who convinces himself prominence in a single sport is worth abandonment of his scholastic hopes, the business man who decides in favor of practices...