Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to the great demand for courts no person or combination of persons can be permitted to reserve a court or courts for more than one hour per day. Doubles courts can be reserved only for doubles play. A reservation ticket calling for a particular court will be issued at the time of application, but this ticket will be absolutely void unless presented at the designated court within five minutes of the hour named. Any abuse of the reservation privilege will be penalized, probably by black-listing both as to further reservation of courts and as to ticket applications...
...scheme of Government ownership, so much discussed and prophesied today, Professor Cunningham is absolutely opposed. In explaining his stand he said, "There is at present, on the part of employees and of a growing minority of the public who fail to appreciate the ultimately unfavorable effects, a strong demand for government ownership. It is to be hoped that such an economic calamity may be avoided. The weight of public opinion is in favor of leaving to private initiative those things that can be done better by individuals than by the Government. A continuation of Government operation was overwhelmingly opposed...
...spring sports tennis claims the largest following, too large, in fact, for the equipment which is by no means niggardly. The courts are so crowded during the week, with so much necessary waiting in line, that some provision should be made to satisfy as far as possible a demand that exceeds the supply...
...supply of ready money assembled a small library of his own during his college course. The modern student, however, is no longer able to indulge his natural inclination toward book-collecting; even for the most essential textbooks he often relies upon friend or college library. Under the ever-increasing demand of workmen for more wages, prices have steadily risen until a volume of even the most modest description is not infrequently quoted at three dollars. The labor union is slowly teaching the college student to appreciate the value of books. But the lesson is expensive...
...same statistician who two years ago declared a raise in wages justified by the increase a living expenses has now pronounced a reduction of ten per-cent in order. The workers, however, reply as usual with a demand for shorter hours at the increased pay. The exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...