Word: yieldingness
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"To one who has not studied geographical theory and principles (as most Americans have not) most lines on a map may look roughly alike. A geographer, however, knows that to shift a line a few miles or to change its course minutely may mean the difference between a fair and...
> Foilswoman Helene Mayer of San Francisco, German refugee: the women's national fencing championship; for the seventh time; winning all five bouts and yielding only four touches along the way; at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Only fencer able to alternate touches with her for even a brief spell...
The good U.S. earth is yielding up the first fruits of 1942. Soon summer, moving north, will whiten the grain fields to the harvest-the biggest in U.S. history and the most needed. But to many farmers last week things did not look good.
No less than 78.03% of the air is nitrogen-which is used as a constituent of many explosives and fertilizers-but a well yielding undiluted nitrogen may prove useful. This one has been capped until its uses can be explored.
Anyone who came away from last weekend's game with the Blue, left with the opinion that Harvard had outplayed but not outscored Yale. For at least two thirds of the game the Crimson held the upper hand, yielding only at the end when all-out efforts to break a...