Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to say definitely where all the nicknames and epithets of athletes come from. Undoubtedly, the vast majority are coined by newspaper men, but to trace these monickers back to their original inventor would demand far more real labor and exacting research than the problem is worth. Alton Kimball ("Special Delivery", "Arlington Al", etc.) Marsters comes to the Stadium today. He is the hostile nicknamed star in the position which last Saturday was taken by C. K. ("Onward Christian") Cagle, the hula-hipped...
Cooperation with the library, and a realization by the instructors that there should be some ratio between the supply of books and the demand is necessary to correct the present situation...
...second time in as many weeks, there has been an oversubscription for tickets to a game in the Harvard Stadium. There were 16,675 applications for 60,868 tickets to the Dartmouth game; and the capacity of the Stadium is only 57,335, leaving a surplus demand of 3,623. There were 8,950 graduate applications for a total of 24,392 tickets: Dartmouth received 23,000 tickets; 3,855 undergraduates applied for 7,927 of the valuable pasteboards; and 207 members of squads asked for 1,480 tickets. The remainder of the applications were filed by members...
...some 14,000 square miles of territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants of other nationalities. The proposals verbally quoted by Dr. Rajniss rang true. They sounded like Masaryk, intelligent, magnanimous. Of course they did not envision yielding to the extreme Hungarian irredentist demand: "Czechoslovakia must give us back the whole 14,000 square miles...
...expansion of the present organization rather than the acquisition of new units. Already one of the greatest in the world is the system to which this expansion will be brought. Texas Co.'s oil and gasoline are the only brand sold in every state. To supply this demand, as well as foreign markets, the company controls 6,431,151 acres of oil land from which flow 147,000 barrels a day. Pipe lines carry this oil 6,505 miles to 17 refineries, after which it is transported in a fleet of 6,863 tank cars and 30 ships...