Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players has been scanty and -disappointing, enough to discourage even a coach like Fesler. During the last month, however, Harvard has witnessed a stimulating rejuvenation in basketball, making the team a formidable threat to other rivals in the Eastern League and perhaps giving it the right to demand its majority...
...behalf of Parker-Cramer, I demand immediate retraction with reference to the libelous statements that were printed in this article about them...
...alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
...There are always plenty of plot and plenty of dancing girls with curves in the right places. There is not too much gold-digging and, above all. the established ways of creating audience sympathy for leading characters are disregarded. Heroes and heroines of the Warner cycle demand your love by being either nincompoops or rascals...
...trading on a cotton futures market, little if any lint is actually delivered. Those who sold cotton short either as a hedge or as a speculation simply buy back their contracts, bringing everybody out even without the bother of handling the staple at all. Messrs. Tullis & Craig, however, demanded real cotton. This they had a perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade early this month, it caused a scramble for the necessary bales. Cotton prices in the past fortnight jumped 1? per lb., giving the South a $10,000,000 Christmas present. Profit...