Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earned income, 4) that inspection of tax returns by Congressional Committees would not foe objectionable providing the proceeding were secret, 5) that increased Federal estate taxes are unwise since this is a principal source of state income, 6) that tax on gifts would be difficult to enforce and yield little revenue, although it would tend to destroy the total capital of the country, 7) that miscellaneous taxes should not be cut any more than the expected surplus will allow...
Paris was dismayed. Poincaré had lost a friend, said the journals. France was isolated. The proposed economic convention was not unfavorable to Belgium. France was to yield 10% on import duties of 140 articles while Belgium was to yield on only a few articles. But it was felt that the convention would bind Belgium to France as against either England or Germany...
...Davidson, 76, who, it was said, would resign on account of age. True, Bishop Temple has friends in the Labor Government; but Archbishop Davidson is unlikely to give a Labor Government the chance to appoint his successor. Furthermore, a slight acquaintance with Canterburian tradition would reveal that its Archbishops yield only to death...
...large-scale surface cultivation still typical of American farming. In the former case, a small area is carefully tilled, and studied, in order to raise the maximum produce which its natural fertility makes possible. In the latter, whole-sale methods are applied to vast territories, and a fair yield is ordinarily obtained, which rarely represents the full return of which the land is capable...
...prominent Jews who regard it as an insult to their faith. The identity of the ink-thrower is as yet unrevealed, but His aim was not equal to his ardor. The damage to the canvas is confined to some dozen splashes on less vital parts and will doubtless yield easily to the expert manipulation of a restorer...