Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jooss partisans point to the fact that the Monte Carlo Ballet suits its steps to well-tried music, that most of the modernists demand music improvised to suit their own highly athletic dancing. By way of a happy medium Jooss and Cohen devise programs in which dance and music are, for better or for worse, interdependent. Financial backing was the chief Jooss need after the U. S. visit in 1933. In England the sponsor was found-Mrs. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, an heiress to the U. S. Whitney fortune who, with her British husband, is striving to build up an idyllic...
...hearing far too much of this supposed gospel of leisure. A true gospel of leisure will say that much may be found in work itself. . . . Vigor belongs to spirituality and indolence belongs to sin. Since when has youth come to demand security and ceased to cry just for opportunity? . . . A mania has seized men to get things and do things easily. . . . God alone can change human lives and the church must learn to put this truth into practice...
...accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from the apparent relief shown by the stereoscope the contour lines passing through points of the same elevation. Relatively limited is the demand for Fairchild's highly-specialized goods and services. Sales of the camera division last year were only $776,000, of the survey division $245,000. Staffed and equipped to turn out almost any kind of precision instrument, Fairchild's Woodside (N. Y.) plant has lately added sound and recording equipment...
...worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack on Spain. By patience, vigilance and frequent threats to resign, he prevented worse Presidential blunders than those that disgraced Grant's two Administrations...
...promising machine lacks the right cogs in that many of the advisors are unfit for the job, and poor organization serves as a defective driving wheel. Freshmen themselves are partly blameable for the first fault, incompetent men. They demand from their advisors the voluminous ever-changing rules governing courses, and are bitter if the instructor makes the smallest mistake in the facts. Dean Leighton has found that the older professors--the best advisors who take the most effective interest in the students--will resign if held accountable for laws better picked up at University C. If Freshmen were less insistent...