Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfunded debts are simply "I.O.U.'s," mostly promises to pay on demand. Demand for payment has never been made. The U.S. has intermittently and circumambulatorily suggested that the "I.O.U.'s" be redeemed and the debtors have replied, sometimes politely, "Yes, yes, but at the moment I'm a trifle stony-do you mind...
...dispute were to arise with one of the Caribbean republics of such proportions as to demand the intervention of Britain as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, would the United States step in and assert her sole right to settle it? This was what she did in the Venezuelan matter.* In the future, Canada might have a very great interest in the solution. Foreign policy is rapidly becoming an affair not of Britain alone, but of the Britannic Commonwealth...
...create more, many more, associate professorships to retain the services of the instructors and assistant professors. These men wish to be assured that the University desires their services as long as they will remain. Under the present system, few expressions of this sort are given. While the undergraduates demand more contact with their instructors and more "honors" courses, the departments quite properly demand scholarly work to justify promotion to a full professorship. The instructor hasn't time for both. Though he may be a better man to teach than the one who contributes countless ingenious notes to learned publications...
...injustice done to Paavo Nurmi has recently bear emphasized by the demand of one Irving Small, an, "amateur" hockey player and member of the American Olympic team, for his past salary, amounting to the sum of one thousand dollars. Amateur hockey has slipped so far in America that it puts any accusation of professionalism, directed against an individual foreigner, in almost a ludicrous light. Nurmi can scarcely fail to realize this...
...busy. It was pointed out that $100,000,000 was only 2½% interest on the debt and that there had been no suggestion as to the rate at which France proposes to refund the debt after the expiration of a five-year moratorium which, it was understood, she would demand...