Word: yieldingness
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To the shrewd ones, however, an end to war would spell a beginning of something else. The Junkers, the big industrialists and the professional soldiers are schooled in the belief that unconditional surrender need not be catastrophic-unless imposed by the Russians. Once before, they might recollect, a timely yielding...
When Perry Hayden, Quaker and Tecumseh, Mich., miller, heard a sermon on this text (that life evolves out of death), he wanted to prove it literally. So he planted 360 kernels of high-yielding Bald Rock wheat. Then Quaker Hayden had another idea: he would dramatize the Biblical injunction of...
Everything looked the same. The lush greenness of the Yard. The Navy Officers in the Square. The congregation to Hayes-Bick. Harvard was old Harvard, when Hitler was a pup, and this war wouldn't make any more difference than the other six or seven in her history had. The...
Working for Mr. Morgenthau is no great shakes, financially speaking. With Government securities which the banks can buy yielding well under an average 2%, profits are low. In 1942 they were estimated at $400,000,000 (as against 1929's $557,000,000), representing a 6% return on total...
Mexico, entering its third year under Avila Camacho's rule, had found that he had fulfilled his promises made on election eve after a bloody campaign (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). He and war had brought unity; he had pacified both Left and Right; he had brought back the Church...