Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting Professor Spaulding will speak before the Association of Secondary School Principals on the topic. "What May the Senior High Schools Demand of the Junior High Schools." He will also address the National Association of High School Supervisors and Inspectors on the subject, "Should Rural Communities Attempt to Establish Junior High Schools." Professor Spaulding, who is well known in educational work, recently published a monograph on the small junior high school...
...these youngsters comically and unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there is a sportmanship of the intellect, and it forbids us, in dealing with adversaries, to demand that the game be canceled before having been played and ourselves adjudged the winners...
...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...
...October, North and South American copper producers, who produce about 80% of the world's supply, had an output of 149,200 tons of refined metal. The domestic demand in October was 100,400 tons, and 54,992 tons were exported. In November the output was 155,448 tons while domestic plus export demand totaled approximately 149,000 tons. Consumption has so closely equalled production that on Dec. i, reserve stocks of refined copper were down to 52,153 tons-less than a two-week supply. Nearly every U. S. copper refinery is running at capacity, domestic demand shows...
...consumption in 1927 was 834,550 tons, or 14.15 pounds of copper per person. With the automobile industry planning to produce 3,000,000 cars and trucks during the first six months of 1929, with 1929 building expected to exceed 1928, and with various proposed railway electrification projects, copper demand should steadily increase...