Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, will the Senator yield?" is the most frequently heard question on the Senate floor. Despite its familiarity, West Virginia's droning Chapman Revercomb faltered in mid-speech when he heard it one day last week. The polite parliamentary request came from a citizen in a rear gallery...
...Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition to 50,000 copies, which will net the author another $20,000. (The French edition, now moving at a 1,000-a-month clip, has already sold around 14,000 copies...
...playing the Russian game when our press gives the impression that we ignore the Big War, and when we talk about 'negotiating' with the Russians. Our experience with them has proved by now that it is impossible to negotiate with them. It is either to yield to them or to tell them...
...contained in a blue book in order for it to merit a given mark. This is only the beginning of the coordination that is required if marks are to be more than a rather arbitrary estimate. Intra-departmental conferences can set roughly approximate levels of work which would yield equivalent grades on the final examinations in the various courses within the department. The conferences should extend beyond departmental bounds to insure a degree of standardization for courses within the same division...
Modern Hunt. Since the supply of musk has never met the demand, perfumers have always looked for substitutes. They discovered that many animals have musky-smelling lure glands. Beaver glands yield castor, which is widely used. So is loud-smelling civet. Perfume chemists once eyed skunks, encouraged by the fact that many people do not mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance...