Word: yieldingness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
So in Philosophy, at least, liberal education suffers because of the selection of subject-matter to be studied. Here, as in matters of methodology. It seems fair to give an explanation in terms of the faculty's unwillingness to put reason to use, instead of yielding to convention or prejudice...
> Wilms's tumor, a cancer that attacks the kidneys of children and is often fatal, is yielding to new treatment. Reporting at the Cancer Society seminar, Dr. Sidney Farber of Children's Hospital in Boston said that radiotherapy and surgery had previously been effective in 40% of cases...
As the war in the jungle began taking a turn for the better, Abdul Rahman flintily told Britain that the time was long overdue for Malaya's independence. After months of haggling and delay, the Tunku finally forced Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd (now Lord Boyd...
Out of past Agriculture research projects have come frozen orange juice and instant mashed potatoes, stretch-cotton fabrics and machine-washable woolens, cheaper penicillin and longer-lasting blood plasma. Projects now in the works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses...
The revolution in U.S. farming has been largely a result of the science and technology promoted by the Agriculture Department: new types of machinery, higher-yielding varieties of plants, improved breeds of livestock, more effective pest control, greater use of chemical fertilizers, more efficient methods of handling and storing crops...