Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day, both houses adjourned in memory of the late Senators Albert B. Cummins of Iowa and Bert M. Fernald of Maine; but not until stormy Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana had risen from his seat in the rear of the Senate to demand an investigation of corruption charges against Arthur R. Gould, who had just taken oath of office as Senator from Maine. On the second day, the President's message was read, and the House adjourned in memory of onetime Speaker Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. On the third day, came the President's annual...
...hockey league proves popular and there is a great demand for skating space before the Christmas holidays, further arrangements for rinks will be made during the vacation. The tennis courts will be flooded, and, if it is necessary, more rinks will be constructed...
...order to like care of the unusual demand for floor space, the Hemenway Gymnasium will be open for practice seasons in the evening. A police starting what teams will practice, the time and place will be published dally in the CRIMSON...
Another reason for the conservatism of the American college may be that the American public displayed no interest in any such experimenting. The well-trained mind was not in any great demand on a continent where good health and steady habits were almost the only prerequisites to fortune. The conditions have not greatly changed with the passing years. The American people, progressive in many other points, have been utterly reactionary in their points, have been utterly reactionary in their attitude towards intellectual training. Parents have discourged concentration upon study, and employers have put more emphasis upon the non-academic record...
...indeed the program which the Glee Club presents tonight could hardly be improved upon. Two or three numbers demand particular mention. One of the most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...