Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second great shortage was one of railroad equipment. It had been accumulating during the war period and since the war, and this year it has made itself felt in an acute demand for locomotives, cars, rails, and repair parts. Railroad earnings are increasing, and even those roads that are in straitened circumstances are placing large orders. There seems to be every probability that the makers of railroad equipment and supplies will continue to be active during 1923. This insures a very considerable bulk of business for the iron and steel Industries, for the railroads are their best customers...
...divisions of the greatest period are: first, the temple art, for the decoration of sanctuaries, and second, landscape painting. From this popularization of art came the demand that resulted in the print. At first only the block outline was printed and the color was put in by hand...
...Harvard-Oxford debate on the question of the United States joining the League of Nations will take place tonight at Symphony Hall at 8.15. It is anticipated that the demand for seats will be so great that extra accommodations will have to be made on the stage...
...members of the University may now use the University squash courts for half-hour periods by signing the reservation sheets in the squash court building on Linden street in advance. The demand for the courts in the late afternoon has made reservations necessary. Mr. Harry Cowles, who has just been appointed racquet instructor, will be at the courts to give instruction after the fall tennis season...
...without checks and not waiting for change. There would be fewer latenesses at the nine o'clock classes. But every student would undoubtedly run beyond his means in order to avoid living on the generosity of others. Soon, instead of paying indefinite sums for "Snyder and Martin", we would demand to be told the cost of three hundred copies, would divide it by three hundred, and by common agreement each would pay his exact portion. Thus, with due respect to Plato, Sir Thomas More, and Mr. Bristol of Foxboro, we consider the Harvard Cooperative Society a large step ahead...