Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These changes has vastly improved the Department academically; but there is still much to be done. The appalling state of the general facilities for the study of music at Harvard still appals, and this year is complicated by further needs which demand immediate action. There are no real practice rooms; the music library in Paine Hall is a disgrace to the University in its gross inadequacy--and this all the more unnecessary when Harvard possess one of the best music libraries in the country. A petition circulated by students in music last year, requesting the transfer of the collection...
...Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that this man, who is not an Ambassador but an agent for War, be driven out of this country...
...then mechanicaly recited by members of its staff. They said they had brought morning tea to Mr. Simpson and a woman who was not Mrs. Simpson but was with him in a double bed. There must be no provable collusion in an English divorce case and judges usually demand to hear in court the name of the "other woman" or corespondent. This had not been mentioned when Mrs. Simpson's lawyer asked the Court to grant the decree nisi of divorce,* and a fateful pause ensued. Mr. Justice Hawke was sitting hunched over his desk dangling his handkerchief before...
This has always been the case between China and Japan, neither State ever being willing to let citizens of either country know what their betters are demanding or yielding. But Japanese demands are always intentionally drawn in a manner so loose that, if China accepts, her yielding can later be stretched to several times the length of a reasonable interpretation. The London Titties recently suggested that there might be some justice in Ambassador Kawagoe's reputed demand that "China must recognize the special position of Japan in North China" if only Foreign Minister General Chang could win a concession...
During the winter months about 150 men are constantly at work repairing the building and furniture. Blacksmiths, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, metal-workers, and mechanics are in demand. Besides the customary machines the Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building...