Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specific Effects. Scalpers are now free to charge any price they wish for theatre tickets; but the larger Manhattan agencies immediately announced that they would stick to the 50c fee, "unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...Arts is exemplified at its best in the exhibition of photographs taken by Professor Clarence Kennedy of Smith College, now being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. For obvious reasons satisfactory photographs of sculpture are far more difficult to obtain than those of paintings. They demand a sympathetic study of the object from innumerable points of view, and in varying lights and shadows in order to bring out the essential and finest qualities. Appreciating this to the full, and realizing the importance of good reproductions for the use of students, Professor Kennedy has for several years...
...prosperity reached a point where bread-&-butter education is decreasingly in demand? The Department of the Interior published a survey of private business and commercial schools. Enrollments had fallen off from 32% to 61% in five years. Classes in bookkeeping, stenography, accounting and salesmanship were particularly diminished. Wireless telegraphy showed the greatest decrease, 67%. . . . Partial explanation: public high schools have opened courses in many a commercial subject...
...report on his recent discovery of Kharakota, dead Tibetan city. Huge stone figures of "evil-eyed females" and a wellful of buried treasure were prominent items. Colonel Kozlov estimated that the simian population of Tibet-monkeys, gorillas, mandrills-far outnumbered the human "and could supply the world's demand for rejuvenation glands for a century." In Kookooner Lake he came upon an island inhabited only by three large-framed, shaggy Buddhist monks who, never before having seen a civilized man, fled like pious cavemen...
...which to make good earlier neglect. But the great majority will welcome "time for consecutive reading and for other large tasks, free from interruption by a schedule that breaks up" their "work into small unrelated units." In short, they will welcome a greater freedom because it will permit and demand greater self-reliance...