Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman connected with the New York Herald recently told a friend that there were constantly ten or fifteen Yale graduates "hanging around" the Tribune office looking for a position on that paper. College graduates do not seem to be in demand on the metropolitan press...
...inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
...following card has been provided by the library authorities, and will be sent whenever inquiries for any book then out will warrant: "The librarian would remind you that there have been several inquiries for the book named below, and has no doubt that when informed of this demand you will desire to return it as soon as your use for it is over...
...weights. The university crew and nine should undoubtedly have the right to use the weights at their own convenience; but it does not seem exactly just for the freshman crew and nine and the class crews to monopolize them at a time when they are so much in demand...
...confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past. Men of wealth feel greater readiness in endowing an institution of this sort than one where the whole government is kept a close secret. And the fact that Harvard is demanding more money is no indication of weakness, but, on the contrary, to quote the Advertiser, this demand is "but a gauge of its progress and an indication of its healthy expansion...