Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly aware, I paid some $60 for the subscription six or seven years ago. . . . Despite the limited supply, I realize that the demand, or lack of it, is the determining factor in this type of transaction and I will entertain any reasonable offer for my holding...
...floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland" as a price for throwing in their lot with England...
AMHERST, Mass. April 27 (UP)--President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University today dismissed as "a passing vogue" the demand of Harvard's James B. Conant for restricted university enrollments...
...next morning was he shown the folly of his ways, when a soul-stirring expression of sympathy poured out of his mail-box. A distant collegiate acquaintance, driven by passion to the extremity of correspondence, pointed out how grossly maligned Harvard had been, how irreparably besmudged her lovely escutcheon. "Demand satisfaction at once!" the letter urged. "Oh, dear, if such a thing should happen to Yale...
...circulars, illustrated only by a picture of a harrassed mother clutching a baby to her bosom, reminded the reader of "the shot heard round the world," and exhorted him to "burn up the wires with telegrams to your Congressmen" and demand that the "Rights of Labor" and "Human Brotherhood" be maintained...