Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urgent need for the construction of a building which shall fill the college's greatest need, including the means for various forms of light exercise and preferably two tanks, one for instruction and one for competitive purposes. Talk and excuses for its postponement have reigned long enough: only a demand by undergraduates and interested alumni can arouse action. The sooner this desire is forcibly expressed, the sooner can we reach the standard set by other universities in swimming which normally ranks high among the minor sports...
Under this government India was filled with a growing unrest. When the war broke out and India, contrary to the expectation of Germany, remained loyal, when self-determination was held out to the Arab States, and when Egypt had a prospect of independence, the Indian began to demand that his system of government be radically changed. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the British government sent Lord Montagu to India in 1918 to study the country and return a report to Parliament advising what course to pursue. In June, 1918, Lord Montagu presented his report, which ranks with Lord-Durham...
...spite of a national demand for new building and the opportunity for investing our surplus energies in European reconstruction, the country faces the increasingly serious question of unemployment. We are constantly hearing about a "shortage of labor", but in direct conflict to this statement are the thousands of men who are out of work and who apparently have little prospect of finding a job. Recent estimates place the number of idle laborers on January...
...demand for tickets for the Princeton Triangle Club play. "They Never Come Back", has been so much greater than was expected that the Princeton Alumni Association of New England, who are in charge of the arrangements in Boston, announced yesterday that the tickets were entirely sold out. The only undergraduates who could be accommodated at all were the members of the Hasty Pudding Club, who were given preference over others...
...good illustration of such a case is the set of resolutions drawn up by the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic at its first annual convention in Boston. The convention, after expressing its sympathy for Ireland and the cause of the "Irish Republic", proceeded to demand the court-martial of Admiral Sims because of "his abuse of official position and misrepresentation of the Irish cause"; to agree upon a boycott of English goods in America; to insist that Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador, be recalled for attempting to "dictate the policy and government of our people...