Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Hepburn. Set against the dream-like beauty of the lovely little Scottish village of Thrums the drama unrolls itself with absorbing simplicity and beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played by John Beal) has a hard boat to row for these fiercely pious Scotsmen demand a strength and purity in their spiritual leader which few mortals would dare to assay. This little village is rocked by the industrial turmoil which shook all of Great Britain's industrial villages in in the thirties and forties of the last century--the weavers are pitted against the owners...
...information above ground. But they are equally concerned with flushing false information out of those channels. No longer need millions of men and women be persuaded that contraception is good, possible, practicable. No longer do only "immoral" women and men who fear venereal disease use contraceptives. The household demand for contraceptives has made every drugstore in the land, and a multitude of gasoline stations, poolrooms and candy stores supply depots for the material. Most of such items are unreliable. Some are downright dangerous. Consequently the paramount objective of Mrs. Sanger and the American Birth Control League now is to make...
...Manhattan last week Intertype Corp., makers of typesetting machines, revealed an unprecedented demand by newspaper composing rooms for extra supplies of cipher matrices. One Manhattan daily lately put in a hurry call for more ciphers, found Intertype completely out of stock. Eager to help out a customer, the factory put out of commission some of its own typesetting machines, extracted the ciphers, rushed them to the rescue...
...that college cannot and should not be a vocational school. While specialization in one field is desirable for those who have dominant interests, it is folly to assume that all students are naturally specialists. The combination of History and Literature is a happy augury. To satisfy an increasingly vocal demand, more generalized and inclusive fields in the humanities and in science should be provided...
London, Feb. 17--Faced by Premier Mussolini's mobilization of 30,000 troops and Italy's demand for indemnity and apology for border incidents, the Abysinian government tonight evidently was determined to pursue a policy of conciliation coupled with preparedness...