Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traces of the same evils found in Harvard is prove that the tutorial system in itself is not a guarantee for anything. It is better than the lecture system if the tutors are very good and if the undergraduates have a thorough secondary education and sufficient leisure not a demand immediate results. After all, the best of Oxford is not due to a system but to a civilization. Perhaps the two will never be incidental...
...succeeding days, the Prince's right hand was in great demand and as a result he was inconvenienced by a slightly sprained wrist...
...held. Then he must set forth the means he has devised of squeezing the necessary revenue out of the country. Then, if the measures he proposes are too drastic, there will be an outcry, a battle of words and of politics. Fingers will be levelled at him with the demand: ''Why have you not reduced the estimates?" Or, if the burden of taxes is not too heavy, but is poorly distributed so that it galls the Nation's back, the cry is: "Why so clumsy? Why such favoritism?" For the Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to be a sort...
Henry Turnbull, the Rev. Hector's youngest, was thin, docile, an idiot to his family and the village. He ran errands, dug in the garden and walked, when not in demand, to South Egdon, for respite from mankind's puzzling beastliness. This he found in his only friend, Henry Neville, the South Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death...
Although the growth of the Bell System during the last few years has been unprecedented, all indications point to the continuance of that growth and an increasing, rather than abating, demand for telephone service. Such a rate of growth, together with increasing complexity of the telephone art, calls for a new potential leadership in the technical, administrative, and commercial fields of the system...