Word: yieldingness
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Yet the claim of the book is a great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days...
"I cannot in honesty assert to you that to increase that deficit this year by two billion two hundred million dollars will in itself bankrupt the United States. Today the credit of the United States is safe. But it cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of...
Of manufacturing items and procedures which the engineers discussed, the following attracted most attention: Yielding metal disks to replace safety valves in tanks which contain corrosive gases; pure, unyielding platinum, gold and silver to line tubes and machinery; porous bricks which act as heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of...
Whatever means are devised for paying off the soldier's certificates, the bonus bill will still remain a purely selfish bit of class legislation. As such it is as great a vice as the inflation it eventually would cause. Today the majority of the country look to the President in...
¶ Franklin Roosevelt once more had forced on him two ticklish and related questions: How to keep business satisfied without yielding to its desires, and how to permit business to let off its critical steam without busting out in open denunciation of the New Deal. Fortnight ago Secretary Roper'...