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Word: demand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ministress of Labor Margaret ("Saint Maggie'') Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Finally, acknowledgement should be made of the debt of gratitude that Harvard owes to these alumni who have taken it upon themselves, in response to a student demand, to bring about the recognition and reappearance of the Drama as a fine art in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATER SCHOOL | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...assignment for the December Hour consisted of reading from relevant parts of a half dozen books. One strongly recommended for the examination was Marriot's "Revolution of 1848", a single copy of which was placed at the desk in the Reading Room a week before. Assuming a constant demand for the book, it could be used for roughly 300 hours during the three weeks notice given. With approximately 200 men in the course, and allowing two and a half hours for each man to study the 100 pages assigned reasonably well enough for adequate preparation, the one book would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY 2 | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative to unemployment in the United States are wanting. Mr. Watkins predicted that it will become a great problem within a few generations and will seriously affect prosperity

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATKINS PREDICTS FALL IN AMERICAN WEALTH | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...excuse for this might be put forth if there were any lack of demand for the course, or if it were being taken only by those with a good foundation in the Fine Arts. But the course is filled to overflowing every year with an ever increasing enrolment, while Fine Arts instructors themselves sit back and admit that the situation sadly needs remedying. A majority of students fail to get any real artistic appreciation out of their frenzied memorizing of slides, it is generally conceded and yet it is the assumption when they voluntarily enter the course that they earnestly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINE ARTS 1d | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

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