Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...builders will not build. . . . We all have had to take it on the chin and now when those of us who met our weekly payrolls and survived are getting ready to take on responsibilities again we are told we are shirkers. We are not. We want our opportunity-we demand...
...basic validity. To hush critical cries of cowardice, NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case: U. S. v. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp., Schechter Poultry Market, Joseph Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter...
...obscure but basic crux of Europe's crisis: The German people stand with Hitler; but the people of France and Britain have no stomach to stand today against Nazidom or with leaders who would take strong action. To Premier Mussolini, brooding alone, this state of affairs seemed to demand candor and he gave it straight from the shoulder in Il Popolo d'Italia...
...extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct birds by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, coupled with a warning that, without rigid safeguards, three more North American birds...
...fore, not through hostility to the plan itself, but because they must be appreciated and anticipated if the plan is to be successful. At the same time, the Committee's action will be valuable in the long run only insofar as each Department responds to the growing demand for introductory courses more general than technical. In the sciences in particular, a course concerned primarily with the history of science, and a study of the scientific method would be immensely valuable, the more so in a world suffering from a surfeit of loose, wishful thinking...