Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience into the inner circle is that the intercollegiate debate will become a forum. With the decision resting in its own hands, the audience will not be content silently to sit back and let its opinions be tossed about a half dozen young men in tuxedos. It will demand and assume a voice in the argument. This contingency will heighten the competition between the two teams by swelling the ranks of the opposition. If something of the intercollegiate flavor is lost by thus admitting the commoner, the gain is a notable one, along the road leading to the conception...
...secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand for nitrophoska," exulted Herr Doktor Bueb, "has frequently been greatly in excess of the available supply." Aboard the Lutzow, last week, there were few if any "hush hush" conferences among the chemical tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will be concluded paralleling those now affecting...
These mighty benefactions, as everyone knows, came from oil?oil of a day when a businessman had to be crude to be successful. And yet. the methods of that day fathered the modern corporation. Much ethical refining has been done, to be sure, as witness the demand of earnest John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
Judge Edwin B. Parker, board chairman of the Chamber, was there. The times, he said, "demand that we consider the disturbing evidences of a business atavism- a throwback of a day of unrestrained individualism; a day of 'the public be damned...
...true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been...