Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a general belief among folk whose faith is frail and timid, that a study of actual phenomena, a demand for evidence to support the hypothesis, precludes a belief in immortality. Such folk were surprised last week when Dr. William Darrach, dean of the faculty of medicine, speaking at Columbia University's annual commemoration service, said...
Hamilton Watch. For years President Charles F. Miller of the Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Pa., was in that position, at once pleasant and irritating, of having greater demand for his products than he had facilities to supply. Last week he was in the totally pleasant position of having ample supply and ample demand, for he had completed the purchase, for approximately $5.000,000, of the Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Ill. Much of the Illinois Watch shares come from the Bunn family of Springfield, descendants of Abraham Lincoln's good friends & political supporters...
...done, officials of the Exchange made an announcement bare and ominous ?the amount of money loaned to brokers had risen to $4,432,907,321, a sum so vast that brokers slept uneasily, fearing that money vendors might suddenly demand repayment of loans or blandly ask for higher interest payments...
...possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist, who places before his public such sordid material. Would not Pioneer's financial policy of Mussolini's relations with the papacy from a sufficiently worthy substitute for it.' But we are afraid, somehow, that this would fall to satisfy the popular demand...
...computes the total number of Harvard men at 50,000-a liberal figure and assumes that all jobless and disgruntled sons of Harvard are registered at Wadsworth House, the proportion is very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...