Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briefly, the note reaffirmed France's right to make only such trade agreements as she sees fit and flatly rejected the U. S. demand for most-favored-nation treatment without corresponding favors in the U. S. for French goods...
...modern automobile is a cranky, fussy thing. Like cranky, fussy old men, it makes a great to-do over its middle parts. While the motor functions regularly and the wheels go round obediently, the gears between them demand constant nursing. Before the car can run smoothly, these gears must be coaxed from first speed to second, then to third, and in some makes, even into a fourth forward speed. Before they will yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately...
...were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
Talking at Duluth, Minn., last week, at a dinner to his veteran employes, Chairman Robert Wright Stewart of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana said: "The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is the largest manufacturer of gasoline in the world, yet alone we could not supply the demand of the 11 states in the Middle West in which we market our products. If we had a monopoly we would not know what to do with it. I suspect our enhanced problems of production and distri- bution would drive some of us to an early grave...
Harvard, like most other leading universities, maintains an office which acts as a clearing house for the supply and demand of labor of some sort or another. The college, basically, of course, owes the student no chance for a paying position while he is enrolled, though the catalogue of the University encourages men of small means to believe that the difficulties of working one's way through Harvard are not greater than the advantages gained by a Harvard education...