Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toys, if there were a demand for them we should manufacture them. As a matter of fact, however, the demand has fallen off considerably of late and it is hard to find tin soldiers any more...
...audacity of speculation and creation alone, it may be said, lies the salvation of a university. Its maintenance and its organization demand patterns of thought and patterns of life, but it is only in the destruction of these patterns that a university can preserve vitality or realize progress. Such destruction demands as its major requisite a willingness on the part of the student to apply some sort of critical faculty to the patterns which are created for him. Even a faculty of iconoclasts may labor in vain, if its students are afraid to doubt...
...foster this spirit of intellectual audacity. Suppose that courses in economics offered a reasonably unprejudiced treatment of socialistic theories, that English courses were prepared to deal adequately with Joyce or Eliot or Blake. Any education which such a university could furnish, however ideal its equipment might be would demand the contribution by the student of a certain amount of individual judgment, in reality a much greater amount than in the kind of university where education comes wrapped in neat patterns. If the student still furnished no intellectual reagent of his own, the compound would bear very little greater resemblance...
...That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until he almost buys...
Last week, goaded to action by newspaper attacks upon this pet plan, the N. E. A. superintendents reiterated their demand for a Department of Education in the very first meeting. They unanimously adopted a resolution directly demanding that Congress pass Senate Bill 291, the Curtis-Reed Bill; and several score of the voters followed Dr. George Drayton Strayer of Columbia University over to where a joint committee of the Senate and the House was holding public hearings on this bill. Dr. Strayer publicly proclaimed that the present Bureau of Education is inadequate and presented the N. E. A. demand...