Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part of the Senate agrees with them that the cruiser is essential for the protection of U. S. commerce, that the Navy's lack of cruisers should be rectified. Extremists in this group, making a fetish of navies, are rankled by British and Japanese cruiser preponderance. They demand a navy equal to any in the world, consider possible wars with England or Japan...
...overwhelming demand from members of the Military and Naval departments of the University, the date of the Harvard Military Dance has been changed from Wednesday, February 27 to Friday, March...
Wellesley and Harvard reveal a wide diversity of tastes in phonograph records, according to N. A. Bell of the Music Box, which has stores in both college communities. Comparatively few classical recordings are taken at Wellesley, while the smoother dance numbers are in perpetual demand...
...Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness the Aga Khan who presided as Chairman of the All Indian Mohammedan Conference (TIME, Jan. 7). On the agenda was a momentous question. Should the assembled Mohammedans endorse the demand that India be given ''Dominion Status" within a year, which was voiced last fortnight in Calcutta by the Indian National Congress, a gathering not of Mohammedans but of Hindus. When the matter had been thoroughly thrashed out and winnowed, last week, the Aga Khan deftly guided the Mohammedan...
...Significance. Biographer Don Carlos Seitz has handled the eye-opening, breath-taking spectacle of the Bennetts with skill that is both accurate and vivid. On finishing the volume, one is sorry that there are today no editor-owners who pause on their yachts to demand a mockingbird or to send a Stanley to Africa...