Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the influx of youth to advanced educational institutions there has come a demand for a wider definition of the liberal education. Investigations by a government survey indicates that the average number and variety of courses offered today, compared with those of 25 years ago, is 500 per cent greater. And, in proportion, the range and variety of opportunities open to the average graduate are far more extensive today than was true 25 years...
Last week President George A. Sloan of the Cotton-Textile Institute swept aside Labor's proposal that the President's Board of Inquiry for the Textile Industry arbitrate the two-week-old national textile strike. The United Textile Workers' demand that all mills be closed by their owners before arbitration commences, Mr. Sloan found "utterly impossible from every standpoint...
...copy of that Confidential Guide?" boomed a voice in the Plympton Street office of the Harvard CRIMSON, and the attendant, who had just collected a year's subscription from the voice, promptly turned over a copy of the little pamphlet which is so much in demand these hectic days around Harvard Square to Roger Bigelow Merriman, B.Litt, Ph. D., D.Litt., LL.D., Gurney Professor of history and political science and master of Eliot House...
Because of the great demand, especially during the winter months, these courts are placed on a reservation system throughout the playing period each day. Players must sign up and pay for the courts before starting to play. Courts will open at 10 o'clock and will be kept open until 7 o'clock during the fall. As the demand increases in the winter, the courts will remain open longer...
Professor Sprague will discuss in his course the conditions and policies which influence the demand for credit, its supply, and its cost. The following subjects, among others are to be considered: interest rates, the functioning of the gold standard, the foreign exchanges, central bank discount policies and open market operations, the possibilities of a managed currency, and finally economic stability and price stability in so far as that may be attained through banking action...