Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House will reopen its fall clothing drive today in an attempt to increase the insufficient harvest yielded last week. There is a greater demand upon the social service department for discarded garments than ever previously, and the failure of the first collection campaign to reach the quota has made an unprecedented situation...
...wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight. Something happened and carpenter lost. Therefore if there is to be a villain in the proposed movie and if the villain is to suffer a beating at the hands of the hero. Mr. Tunney Shaw has the right to demand retribution and to stipulate that no other than Dempsey shall be the recipient of Mr. Tunney flats Even a Shawan is human...
...Chicago conference, for instance, has emphasized once again the importance of exchange scholarships. Attention was called to the Kosciusko Foundation which provides for exchange of students between Poland and the United States. Such scholarships are practical and all too scarce. Creating a strong and coherent demand for more is one very good way of increasing the supply...
Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...first serious indication of the new forces at work among the laboring masses is the Passaic strike. Here the mill-owners have attempted the age old intolerably stupid method of force and terrorism in an attempt to beat back the demand for reform. They have succeeded only in arousing greater determination among the strikers and in attracting nation wide attention to the intolerable conditions among the textile workers...