Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essential to the welfare of academic life as it is in the business world; at any rate, students will unfailingly elect courses that present the facts in the most inviting and digestible form. If all instructors are obliged to vie one with another in catering to popular demand, college faculties might be stimulated to produce some particularly palatable food for thought...
...propagandists have duped the Guatemalan government into believing that porcelain coins are better, solely for the purpose of establishing a new market for German goods, a market which will never be satiated. For as long as the coins are constantly being destroyed by break-age, there will be a demand for more, thus keeping the German workingmen occupied, and increasing the prosperity of the Fatherland...
...increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn out in our eight, nine and ten hour days as much as the founders of our country once did in twelve, thirteen and fourteen. The demand for shorter and shorter hours is thus the natural accompaniment of our industrial development. It furthermore puts continual pressure on the employers to keep their plants at the highest possible pitch of efficiency...
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...must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted to his day and generation. He is no less to be respected because he does not, as did his forefathers, toil "from...