Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These facts to the contrary, notwithstanding, the morbid or wholesome craving for alcoholic content created a big, quick demand. Pabst began shipments. August A. Busch announced that Anheuser-Busch could not ship for several months. Small druggists will be. limited to five cases a week, big druggists to 25. Twelve-ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon...
Many aging members nodded, snored. Angrily an Opposition filibusterer paused in his speech to demand: "Is it in accordance with the rules that right honorable members be allowed to sleep in the House...
...very well be, however, with the rapidly growing demand for admission to college, that the two groups first mentioned may exceed 1000; and in that case the selective process must be applied to those groups as well. It will then be noted that assurance of admission can no longer be obtained by the passing of entrance tests alone. Admission to college has now become strictly a competition, in which school records, entrance examinations, character, industry, health, capacity for leadership, in short, all qualities which may be grouped under the term 'promise,' determine the competitors' success...
...present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does not say so, in presenting this demand it is echoing the ideas of Professor William James, who with his philosophy is surely to be included in the "one or two others." No philosopher of modern times was more keenly aware than he of the "internal nature" which philosophy must recognize and study. The recommendation is significant...
...sake of many good times and many acquaintances made in conjunction with this organization, we hope that there will be interest and ability to carry on this work which has won well-deserved favor. May the Harvard Instrumental Clubs continue their work on fulfilling a popular demand for joysome music. G. E. Smith...