Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, reported one agent located at Plympton and Bow Streets, there has been a marked decrease in the demand for notes, even just before mid-year examinations, when the season usually is at its highest. Another dealer piteously complained that the students did not appreciate what she had been doing for them. Another said that he was afraid of being involved in copyright procedings, and therefore had given up a none too lucrative trade. These causes chiefly have induced publishers of notes other than translations to leave Cambridge...
...great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely to the same person in answer to a demand for surrender, telling the Riff leader in Arabic vernacular to go and eat coke; but circumstances alter cases, and Raisuli went so far to the other extreme as to offer his youngest daughter in marriage to Abd who, apparently, accepted the offer. But Raisuli, Lord of the Mountains...
...Board has also requested that applicants indicate the number of meals which they expect to eat each week in the Union restaurant, in order that the management may know whether it will be necessary to open a dining room on the second floor to meet the demand...
...Clubs want men who are proficient with two or more instruments, especially with the banjo and mandolin. Talented singers are also greatly in demand, and will be given a chance to show their ability...
...editorial competition is one which requires practically none of that tedious clerical work which marks other college competitions with drudgery. In its demand for contact with the trend of events, it is as helpful and stimulating as any college course. It is certainly as valuable as a course in composition for the man who is inclined to carelessness in his writing. Then it gives the rare opportunity of self-expression. The training which a candidate receives is suited primarily to help him perfect his own style. Men who make the editorial board are eligible for the position of editorial chairman...