Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week 1200 cards were sent out from the A. A. to members of the University, requesting their support of the offer. The number of replies shows a decided demand for golfing privileges, especially as it is early for most of the answers to be returned...
...filed. For this game there is no limit to the number of seats one may have. This is because the balcony will be available, and it is thought that all requests for seats can be satisfied. It is announced that this unlimited application will be retracted if the demand for seats is greater than expected. Prices will be the same as for the Yale game...
...lady wanted the interest on her mortgage computed, and another caused a great deal of trouble when she become so curious as to demand the colors of every college and university in the country...
...greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow and elsewhere mobs were incited against the Yang-kuei tze by the old story: "The Foreign Devil kills Chinese babies and cuts them...
...considered, by most men, to be authoritative, and, last week he stated: "Current conditions lead me to the conclusion that there should be a temporary breathing spell in construction [of office buildings, hotels, apartment houses] throughout the U. S. . . that accommodations may not become abnormally in excess of demand. I wish to make it plain that I do not look for any radical drop in the volume of building. . . ." Owners of properties already constructed cried acclaim; owners of undeveloped real estate were dismayed. Said Metropolitan President Haley Fiske, knowing Mr. Straus' wide influence: "I am glad to see that...