Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were blown from glass tubing, which resulted in varying sizes. As soon as the demand increased, it was quite natural that some were blown into moulds from the hot glass as taken from the melting pots. But when incandescent lamps became a necessity, the blowing of these bulbs by individual glass blowers created a labor problem, hence the thought of blowing these bulbs by machines - but how? While...
...Faculty Club, for many years, has been quartered in the cramped facilities offered by the Colonial Club which has been steadily sinking into a condition of disrepair, aside from being entirely inadequate to the demand of the 1000 professors and associates of the Harvard Faculty who would otherwise make use of its accommodations...
...forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand? Has not the individual the right to his liberty? So long as the law is not amended the law throws onto individuals the responsibility of the solution of the problem...
...material witness of this consciousness. Money in any form always has a ready welcome, and it is difficult to imagine a better stipulated use than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made by a graduate society and is the outcome of the common cooperation of many individuals...
...will continue, the School is well past the point where in its total activities it can be considered experimental whether judged by its appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes of its graduates, by the demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these fields. It may fairly forget the early questioning...