Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contact is made through three agencies: the preparatory schools, the Y. M. C. A's, and the churches. Of these, the churches have been most visited in past years. This year, however, the demand from them has been less than in past years, so that attention has been turned toward the preparatory schools and the Y. M. C. A.'s. It is felt that work with these agencies is more in line with the experiences of the average man in college and that probably in the future the emphasis will center on them rather than on churches...
...broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor I have never had a serious difficulty with my men in my lifetime. I believe in the eld theory of supply and demand...
...week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus the abnormal foreign demand for corn explains the current departure from the inexorable "parity." Farmers must win back on corn what...
...Suspense?the alternation between hope and depression?is, after all, something that our natures demand. And here is where the newspaper comes into our routine lives as a saving grace, snatching us from this dreaded, lingering death by boredom...
...they are getting tired of looking at the spectacular scenery and clothes of the reviews," declared Miss Groody to a CRIMSON reporter in her dressing room at the Tremont Theatre. "They want a touch of plot, good comedy, and action, with their music, and only musical comedy meets the demand...