Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifth, on two errors, a steal, and a wild pitch; while it repeated the operation in the sixth, by the aid of Bickham's home run. The fourth inning had proved disastrous for the orange and black, however, for Brownlee broke a finger, and was forced to yield his place behind the bat to Shaw, while King took Shaw's place at right field...
...many disputes among contracting parties. He must be honest, industrious 'energetic' and persevering. He needs not only a practical education, but also a thorough training in the theory of the profession. The work directly after graduation will be hard, it is so with all professions, but he must not yield to temptations to accept low and easy positions, such as draughting. Experience must teach him enough to enable him to criticize the work of others, and to handle men with ability...
...conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty is callous to excuses of over study, they yield at once to the blandishments of cell-wall degeneration of the lung...
...that is useful from the history of other nations, to equip those who desire to enlist in the fight on the side of correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase of one or the other metal, and also of the whole period from the discovery of America to the present time . . . Incidentally, Professor Laughlin demolishes the most distinctive portion of the work...
...body of alumni, and possibly a professor or two. The second class is the strongest, and if predictions are in order, it is quite safe to say that Yale's next president will be a man of their pattern, though it is likely they will have to yield in their requirement that he must not be a clergyman...