Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Danger from the East. Said Churchill: "Ladies and gentlemen . . . there are many famous names associated with the revival and presentation of this idea. But we may all, I think, yield our pretensions to King Henry of Navarre, Henry IV of France, who with his great minister, Monsieur Sully, between the years of 1600 and 1607 labored to set up a permanent committee representing the 15-now we are 16-leading Christian states of Europe...
...Pennsylvania had made a celebrated boner by waiting too long to hop on the Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...
...three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...
Professed aim of the main research is to develop the best means of producing forest products on a sustained yield basis in central New England. "We've done a good deal of work in offering profitable methods to the profession," Hugh M. Raup, director of the forest, declared, "but of course we're conscious that we've only scratched the surface...
Niemöller's reason: "Hundreds of thousands yield under constant pressure to the temptation to wash their hands of guilt by any conceivable lie or distortion . . . and the newly sown seed of hatred has grown rapidly...