Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methodist Church is out-heroding Herod in its demand for the religious control of our people. They have organized their Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, have a building of their own in Washington and, with the zeal of Torquemada, are striving for the ecclesiastical mastery of private conduct, not through the Gospel but through...
...Seven odd tricks is the highest legal bid. The penalties for bidding eight or more: the offender and his partner are barred from the auction; either opponent may 1) demand a new deal; 2) require the declaration to be played at seven, doubled or undoubted, by the offending side; or 3) direct that the auction revert to the last legitimate declaration "and be continued by his side from that point...
...fancy of their natures; but, saving become not men but seniors, they have put away childish things. If it only made them feel better, there would be something to it; yet they have nothing to comfort them but boredom and an increasing suspicion that the laws of supply and demand apply neither to games nor to candles...
...phenomenon is not much farther to seek. Colleges--that is to say, the machinery of education--are being called on to handle a greatly increased load, particularly since the war. Everybody is going to college. And the economist, at least, will not be surprised to realize that, as the demand for education increases, more and more people are attracted to the profession of teaching, not, it must be said, through prospects of a money income, but because of the leisure the academic life is supposed to include. The professor at whom Dr. Paton was aiming would, in economics, be called...
...prime object of college athletics is character building, not victory on river or field, and the alumni who demand the scalp of a coach merely because his team fails to win misunderstand the purpose and mission of the coach. This was the burden of a series of heretical utterances by William J. Bingham, director of athletics of Harvard University, in an address before the Beacon Society Saturday night which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly...