Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then came the real cracker of the Doumergue speech, a demand for immediate constitutional reforms...
When 10,000 men of Harvard descend from the Stadium on a cold Saturday afternoon this fall and demand sustenance for the inner man, Miss Betty Lee and her 35 undergraduate assistants will ward off the attack with thousands of strictly sanitary "redhot" frankfurters...
...preparation for Friday's international meet. Having the two at a disadvantage, the reporters were pumping them via the medium of Peter M. Riccio, a Columbia professor, acting as interpreter. The questions varied from a request to have Beccali name the greatest runner he had ever seen to a demand for Cerati's opinion of Joe McCluskey, the Fordham star, who is Cerati's strongest rival...
...late 1920s Brazil began to store up coffee and future trouble for itself in the form of two revolutions. Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance...
Education on a help-yourself, if-you don't-see-it-ask-for-it basis has come to Harvard, a head-scratching officialdom at the university realized today as it wondered what to do with 350 students who demand instruction in a course in which provision for only 275 students has been made...