Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...There are three great tragic armies of working girls; those who, because of insufficient wage and excessive work, fall early victims to tuberculosis; those who, due to the strain of long hours, are succumbing to nervous prostration; and those who, because of worrying on the problem of mere existence, yield to melancholia...
...protests from students and parents, ever increasing as the number of students from more distant parts of the country grows, and imposing upon the administrative officers of the College a heavy burden from which they escape battered, worn, and fatigued by endless arguments (to which they must not yield) only when the last hour of class-room work has come. These protests, and the subject itself, may at first glance seem frivolous, but it is not too much to say that the irritation caused by a rule which gives to these students but a meagre festival period at the great...
...that time Lachelier was awakening an ardor for metaphysical enquiry, while Taine and Ribot promoted experimental psychology. The followers of the former aimed to draw all the philosophical views from science that it would yield and still let philosophy retain its relative anatomy; the latter class intended merely to apply scientific treatment to philosophy, and so make philosophy one of the positive sciences. The former class comprises rationalists, contingentists and intuitionists, the latter was composed of men who treated the different parts of philosophy scientifically and of savants...
Within the slave is dreaming of the time when scores of husky editors, on track and field, upheld the honor of the funny sheet, and to the daily grinders ne'er would yield...