Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot as he rounds a makeshift into a more satisfactory arrangement. There are still many open sores...
City planning has come greatly into the foreground during the last few years because several hundred cities have taken action to provide for future growth through the medium of a trained city planner. The demand for these men has been so large in recent years as to cause the School of Landscape Architecture to make this move in the direction of supplying that demand...
Professor Lake pointed out the advantages of both systems, advising students who generally did well in their work to choose the former method as it allowed more time for general reading and did not demand a constant minute review of the weekly work...
...slough of Despond and putting it on a winning basis. That they will have some difficulty at least in co-ordinating their methods with that of the other coaches and in establishing a thorough system resulting in immediate victories seems evident. But the undergraduate has no right to demand immediate and constant victories. Winning systems are not built...
...thing, however, the undergraduate body has a right to demand--a frank statement of the relation between captain and coach and rowing committee and of the position which each will occupy. In the past adverse criticism has been centered on these questions of relation and position and a situation in which it was believed that the coach was too much sub-ordinated was blamed for 'Harvard's repeated failures. A frank exposition of the present situation is not only an act of justice to the undergraduate body but is the only way to establish confidence in the new regime...