Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WHEREVER YOU LIVE, demand W. L. Douglas shoes. They are sold in 120 of our stores in the principal cities and by over 5,000 shoe dealers." In 1913, he married a second time, his first wife having died. He established the Douglas Eye and Ear Fund for the treatment of children in Brockton, and also the Brockton Hospital. Less than two months ago he was overtaken by what was described as "a pernicious ailment." He went to the Peter Bent-Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he was operated on twice-to no avail. Last week he died. He left...
...umpteenth and last time Northern Ireland refused to nominate a delegate to represent her on the Irish Boundary Commission (TIME, May 5, et seq.). Furthermore, it was stated that whatever the decision of the Boundary Commission is, the North will demand an appeal...
...present enjoying a boom in Mincing Lane. Russia is beginning to buy once more. British per capita consumption has increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds...
...parent of all modern book agents whose bickering approach was heralded long enough to allow the artist to draw the picture and the message on his locked door. Had the writing been of a blue tint, Ben might well have been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering from a suppressed blue desire, taking steps to relieve the complex. Or Ben might have been a tradesman's menial sent shivering into the yard in a heroic attempt...
...again he touches upon a matter which student or non-student can find of equal concern. The loss of the race through lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future leaders in a fashion to lessen, so far as may be, the handicap of the lagging body upon the mind that would go far on the road of progress. --Manchester Union...