Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...
Resolutions drawn up by N. E. A. included: 1) a demand that Congress pass the Curtis-Reed bill creating a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet; 2) a condemnation of all political interference with school superintendents...
...Professor A. T. Davison '06, will join forces with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra in the production of Arthur Honegger's famous work. This will mark the first appearance in Boston of an opera oratorio which has been so successful in the musical centres as to create a demand for this contemporary choral music...
Many calls are now coming in for settlement house workers, now that the Midyear period is passed, according to McTurnan, and there are increased opportunities for work in the field of sports directing, basketball, baseball, and football organizers being in demand...
...that involving five carloads of machine gun parts, smuggled last December from Italy across Austria and into Hungary, where they arrived on New Year's Day. This smugglery (a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental statesmen were electrified when it was announced, at Budapest, that the machine gun parts had been ordered broken up and would be sold as junk. Never did a suspected criminal more brazenly proceed to destroy "Exhibit A" before the very eyes...