Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, to be brief, the Language Requirements demand that a student must have shown either: (a) a reading knowledge of French and an elementary knowledge of German (or vice versa) or (b) a reading knowledge of Latin plus a reading knowledge of either French or German...
...President did not reply directly to this demand but launched upon a short history of the Indian Problem, which began when white and red men first saw each other some four and one quarter centuries ago; which ceased to be violent with the battle of Wounded Knee, S. Dak., (near Pine Ridge) in 1890; which entered a new phase in 1924 when President Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all native-born Indians citizens...
...part of Northwestern University) in Chicago and he led his class. The Illinois Superior Court engaged him as deputy clerk. He was chief clerk within seven months but soon accepted space and a smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest of the shrewd at winning cases in the confusion...
...ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science of communication has developed no faster than the demand for communication. The press especially will file heavily on Mr. Carlton's western extension and he sees the sun of U. S. trade fast rising in the orient...
...serious-minded veterinarians, skeptical, demand further, exhaustive tests...