Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willys-Knight plant in Los Angeles is significant of the Oriental demand for U. S. automobiles; significant, also, as a reminder that Los Angeles, world cinema capital, boasts many an industry not connected with the pictures. Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone plants have made Los Angeles a tire centre second only to Akron, Ohio. About 125 big companies have built factories in Los Angeles within the past five years, including...
...Supply & Demand. The pleasing posi-tion of copper may well be contrasted with the less pleasing position of oil. Oil has notably suffered from overproduction. Copper has neatly adjusted its supply to its demand...
...observed that French specialities have a strong attraction for Americans. These so-called luxuries have apparently become necessities following the advance in the artistic taste of our people. The demand for the products of French skill and ingenuity has always been, and doubtless will always be, in direct ratio to the extent of American prosperity...
...year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge, but also the student's selective ability in using that knowledge to support...
Although plans have at last been adopted which call for the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...