Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
HOUSE DIVIDED (1514 pp.)-Ben Ames Williams-Houghton Mifflin ($5). Ben Ames Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate...
Corn Casualties. Hot weather in August shriveled corn crop prospects by another 223 million bushels. The Department of Agriculture put the total 1947 yield at 2,437 million bushels, the lowest since 1936. As a result, meat supplies will probably be sharply reduced next year, meat prices sharply raised...
...Senator's voice broke and he seemed close to tears as he said: "They were seeking to lay a trap for me." Brewster recovered his control and closed on a stentorian note: "Let the chips fall where they may. I cannot and will not yield to a campaign of this character...
...Target: Consumers. Another major rise was prompted by cotton prospects. Although this year's cotton acreage was 17.6% higher than last year's, estimated yield was nearly 2,000,000 bales below last spring's estimated needs. As monthly cotton consumption has been dropping-and as there was a carryover of 3,000,000 bales-there was no tight shortage ahead. But cotton buyers also preferred to pay more to be sure they had all they needed. By week's end, the price of July futures rose 2½? to 39.49? a pound, the highest...