Word: demand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suffer a foreign army to undertake the task. That same threat, directed at a feebly inactive Mexican government, brought results; and, strangely enough, eventually brought the government itself greater power and prestige in its own country. The same thing may occur in China; the administration, in satisfying the demand to destroy brigandage, may find itself more firmly seated at Peking...
Henry Ford, among his other projects, plans to sell a total of 20,000,000 cars on the installment plan. To supply the demand which he himself will create, he will establish assembling plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...
...Abbott at his best. Another sonnet, contributed by Mr. Herbert Jones, begins well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name...
Point number 3 is the most pertinent. The present examination calls for a fairly complete knowledge of the whole field. Why would it not be better to demand a thorough study of one or two periods, and a general survey of the rest, such as can be contained in a course like English 41? Clearly, most undergraduates cannot be expected to answer in detail such questions as "Langland as a Reformer", "Chronicle History Plays to 1616", "Diarists of the Restoration", and similarly minute subjects in each period. It would seem more reasonable to answer two of these completely...
...demand for the resumption of trade relations with Russia has broken out again, and seems likely to assume a serious complexion...