Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is some reason to suppose that he deliberately upset the intended emphasis on Edward of Wales. The Prime Minister's excuse is, clearly, that his indiscreet interview was given in the heat of a verbal battle, at Pretoria, with the nationalist politicians of those parts who bluntly demand secession from Britain and proclamation of a Republic...
...People are clamoring for the booklet," stated G. E. Cole G.B. '16, manager of the Coop yesterday afternoon, "and the Cooperative Society is in the embarrassing position of not being able to meet the demand. We have hounded the editors for the precious little volume, but it looks like another miscalculation of publication values. We have turned away 30 or 40 people this afternoon who refused to believe that just another first edition had become history. Many more copies could have met a ready reception from Harvard...
...copies remaining have evidently been far too few to meet the demand. The intense popularity of the little work is atributed to the feature article, "The History of Harvard" by Professor S. E. Morison '08. Harvard alumni have also commented extensively on the article, "Customs and Manners at Harvard," by W. I. Nichols '26. The article on late educational developments in the University by Dean Banford is being reprinted in educational journals. President Lowell, W. J. Bingham '16, Henry Cannon Clark '11, and Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 and R. A. Stout '29 are other contributors...
Manhattan banks raised interest rates on 90-day loans to 7%, threatened even higher rates if the demand were heavy. In only three of the last thirty years, and not since the deflation days of 1921, had time money been so high. Many were the grumblers. Among the loudest, most bitter, was Columnist Arthur Brisbane, who is first a businessman, then a reporter...
...this year have given a new spurt to the U. S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. While their sound picture rival, Fox Film (with Movietone) has customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it was, of strange and jealous exhibitors. With Stanley Co. it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers− Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...