Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This past year the library has been enlarged greatly and now it has a well rounded collection which it offers to the student body. Part of the Phillips Brooks House budget was devoted to buying copies of text books which were in great demand. A special section of the library is devoted to Law School text books. These volumes are kept on the third floor...
Heavy Traffic. Many are the theatregoers who demand, for their lightest entertainment, an exposition, bright with epigrams, not of mirthful innocence but of adultery. Thus the theme of Arthur Richman's ill-illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private...
...Igakuhakushi. Any medical student who offers a smart thesis apparently can get the degree. Clinical experience is little required and some of those Igakuhakushi have been acting like scoundrels. They charge high fees; they write demoralizing articles on sex matters; they sign advertisements; they give testimonials. The women demand that the medical schools make their degree requirements more professional, that some organization function actively like the American Medical Association to reprove and reprimand unethical Japanese doctors...
...Fuller saw net earnings fall from $507,339 in 1926 to $327,000 in 1927, to only $3,108 for the first six months of 1928. On the stock exchange, International Salt dropped from a high of 92 in 1923 to a low of 54⅛ in 1928. Lessened demand, competitive price cutting, are among apparent causes of depression...
Jumpy police officials read the demand of Hindenburg for action, justice. They acted. Soon Silesia breathed easier at the arrest of a notoriously vicious and possibly lunatic youth, who, the pouncing police charged, had murdered Herr und Frau Tschirpe-though no theory as to why he should have done so was announced last week...