Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First and second tenors are in demand in the Vocal Club; places are open in the Banjo, Mandolin, and Specialty divisions also...
...celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly of France and Spain. Then Gieseking played Bach, Schumann, Schubert, Scarlatti...
...first place, here as well as at Harvard there is an ever increasing demand for more adequate dormitory space, for the practice of housing a large portion of the Freshman class in boarding houses about town should by now have about run its course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system...
...Hammonds became Governor Johnston's confidential secretary and a power in the state. Her high-handed tactics with lesser politicians caused the Oklahoma Senate to demand her dismissal. At that time, Governor Johnston described her as a "ewe lamb about to be delivered into the gaping mouths of political wolves." Mrs. Hammonds held her post, and the phrase stuck. Last week's trouble in Oklahoma was promptly labeled The Ewe Lamb Rebellion...
...quick growth and insistent daily unsolicited demand for the Innovation Ingenuities precluded planning for future possibilities, and we had to add one factory after another, which while giving a certain advantage of segregation, increased the fixed charges of the products...