Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have given binding declarations to a large number of States. None of these States can complain that even a trace of a demand contrary thereto has ever been made to them by Germany...
Such a program of attack on "symptoms" would be effective to a large extent, and would at the very least drive illegitimate schools underground. Once the commercialization of tutoring was climinated, the demand now created by high pressure tactics would be gone. It makes little difference whether or not tutoring is really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker...
...petition signed by over three hundred undergraduates, Harvard has signified its eagerness to make America's "good neighbor" niceties more than diplomatic syrup. Harvard's curriculum cannot fill the demand. Its catalogue boasts only one half-course in Brazilian history, shared with Argentina and Chile, and one course in Portugese, given in alternate years and in old Portugese at that...
...administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists like Ebert, visionaries like Karolyi, soldiers like Pilsudski-and as they consolidated their power or went under, they fitted into a Europe in which the demand for peace dominated everything else...
...enough to invoke the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah on the tutoring schools. To demand their extermination is necessary but not sufficient. It is therefore required of the Crimson to clarify its stand by stating the practical objectives of its campaign. Obviously no proposals for reform can be directed at the tutoring parlors themselves; for spiders do not refuse flies. Nor can any requests to shun the schools be directed at the students; for they will attend so long as the Square establishments offer an easy out. It remains for the University to take action...