Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blanton: "Will the lady yield...
...sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift, in his mind, its pale indomitable pinnacle so beautifully that generations must inquire: "Who designed the Woolworth Building...
...Harvard Housing Trust was formed of Harvard graduates to see what could be done toward providing those students with suitable homes at a reasonable price, at the same time putting the scheme on a basis which would yield a moderate return to its investors. The first difficulty was overcome last winter when suitable land was discovered for the erection of the proposed houses...
Totals. Mr. Churchill estimated that the government would have to spend some £812,000,000. He calculated on raising revenues that would yield a surplus of about £4,000,000. But the coal subsidy if figured in with the expenditures instantly turns this surplus into a deficit...
When Premier Briand dared last week to make a question of confidence out of the hated "sales tax" measure which the Deputies have rejected time and again, the bill passed, thereby increasing the expected tax yield for next year by 12 hundred million francs ($42,000,000). Thereafter 225 million francs ($7,875,000) of added taxes on alcohol were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled...