Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
Aside from these suggestions, there are only a few scattering proposals. Most prominent among these is a demand for more hockey facilities and more time during which Freshmen may use the squash courts...
...books, our files, papers and everything are at the Commissioner's disposal," said Sir Herbert. "Orders on hand are satisfactory and your board is considering the possibility of further development. But it does not seek to bring any influence to bear to increase the demand for armaments in this or any other country...
Added Muralist Dean Cornwell: "The photograph has taken the bread completely out of our mouths. The point is how long will it let us starve. It does demand that the artist do better work, and work that is so removed in style that competition will cease to exist...
Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding...