Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...director of the Bank of Sicily has been abducted by brigands, who demand $15,000 ransom...
...preliminary arrangements preparatory to a visit to the East having been made, Mrs. Butterfield and Benjamin started for Chicago, where they were to take a sleeping-car for Boston. Mr. Butterfield remained at home to meet a sudden demand for his "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator," caused by the arrival of a band of French Canadians, who proposed settling on the farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of Saug Centre...
...will revive sufficiently to take some action in regard to the occupancy of courts and the terms of possession. Some equitable rules should be drawn up to govern the distribution of courts, and to bring about some satisfactory solution to the vexed questions now pending of ownership, and of demand for new grounds...
...make up one's mind to a decisive stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total abstinence is preeminently a remedy for the cure of drunkards. The greatest influence on college men is the force of public opinion. And if there is a demand for such a movement as this, we believe it should direct its chief energies towards influencing public sentiment. That indeed, we are glad to see, is provided for in the scheme of the H. T. A. L. Lectures by Phillips Brooks and Doctor James will certainly be listened to with the greatest...
...final ending to what is becoming a monstrous abase and disgrace to intelligent men. This last outbreak would seem to cap the climax of the monument of foolishness that has been heaped up so industriously this year at various colleges. Community of interest and patriotic feelings no longer demand that these actions should be palliated and excused by their fellows; rather that decisive action should be taken against a longer continuance of this epidemic. The reform must commence from within and work its work by itself; the essential necessity for its success is a change of sentiment in such matters...