Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long generation U. S. physicians and surgeons have been going to New York Post Graduate Hospital (established 1882) for advanced instruction. During the last decade a great demand has developed for courses in traumatic and reconstructive surgery...
Industrial accidents stimulated the demand. Post Graduate Hospital experienced some trouble in providing high-grade instruction. Across Manhattan was Reconstruction Hospital which specialized in such work. Nothing could be wiser than to merge the two institutions, decided their directors, a process which was going forward last week. Reconstruction Hospital will be, after Jan. 1, a unit of what will be formally, as always popularly, called Post Graduate Hospital...
Sometimes, even among the best families, accidents will happen. In Nagyrev village, one Mrs. Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
...important factor in building up the company's tremendous export field. When Standard was dissolved in 1911, Mr. Teagle (a vice president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board...
...particularly important one when the House Plan gets definitely started. Next year it would be impracticable to attempt to superimpose house teams on class teams on account of the limited number of those who could take part, but eventually the problem will come up and will demand careful attention. The question as to who will deal with it is an important one. Will the house masters and tutors whose interests are admittedly on the academic side of the new development take time out of their regular duties to try to decide matters athletic? Or will the H. A. A. with...