Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major figure in British politics, Jim Thomas seemed to grow away from his old friends in the railways. London Society took him up to discover that Jim Thomas was one of the best bridge players in town. No after dinner speaker was more in demand because, after the formal speaking was over, Jim Thomas could generally be found in a corner, regaling his friends with a rare collection of off-color stories. Ever since the night when he dined at Buckingham Palace with the buckles of his knee breeches held together with safety pins, he was one of King George...
...restraint and precision marking the report from beginning to end should do much to make the Dean's office realize the high quality of thought underlying it. The features of last year's platform, neglected by the authorities, and stressed again this year, seem to demand especially prompt action. If fresh experience and familiarity with the problems at hand count for anything, it must be said that no one could be more in the know than the Freshmen themselves. Their recommendation should carry corresponding weight when the authorities come to smooth out the out the difficulties of the first year...
...said President Roosevelt, he had asked them for ideas. What he wanted to know was how to make more jobs in industry. The problem, he declared, was to speed up certain industries for whose products there was large demand by people who could not afford to buy them. Railroad equipment and housing were good examples...
...Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation. They had struck out Captain Eden's question about Hitler's intentions regarding the refortification of the Rhineland. Most important of all, they had struck out every mention of Hitler's demand for "colonial equality of rights" lest the answer be too disagreeable for British public opinion...
...last two years there has been a steadily increasing amount of family unscrambling combined with a marked rise in the marriage rate. Both boost the demand for living quarters, inspiring landlords to raise rents when leases expire and encouraging them to hold out for their asking price instead of accepting the first bid, as they were only too glad to do during the lean years...