Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...data would be studied with bated breath, would yield new understanding of the birth of mesons. Eventually, perhaps, the grateful physicists might repay the Army with a cataclysmic meson-bomb...
Leader of the attack on the proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...
There is little chance that Bolivia will exceed the 17,600 tons agreed upon. Reason: rising labor costs (up from a prewar 27? per-man-per-day to $2) will force some mines operating on a low profit margin to remain closed. So, with a low tin yield coming in from the rich Far Eastern mines, the CPA expects a short tin supply until...
...basis of conditions on Aug. 1, the Department of Agriculture predicted that the total yield would exceed 1942's alltime high by 3%. Most of the increase will come from record crops of wheat and corn. Wheat output is expected to reach 1,160,366,000 bushels, 28 million more than the July 15 estimate, some 37 million more than last year's record high. The Corn Belt looked forward to an even greater record: 3,496,820,000 bushels, almost 300 million better than the previous high...
...What loose and wicked talk this is. . .Repetition of an inaccurate statement will not make it accurate. . . . Those who have insisted most loudly on unanimity here have . . . insisted upon [it] to compel a majority to yield to a minority which was unwilling on its part to make the concessions necessary to make a common understanding possible...