Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This demand of Japan's cannot possibly be agreed upon by the other two power for one main reason: that the amount of ocean to be patroiled by Japan is less than one-half that covered by the other two countries. The United States must have ships in both the Atlantic and the Pacific; England must control the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean anyway, and must be able to take care of her possessions in the western hemisphere...
...former course to be given by Malcolm P. McNair, Professor of Marketing, Richard S. Meriam, Professor of Business Economics, and Charles I. Gragg, Assistant Professor of Business will deal primarily with the bearing on business of fundamentals of supply and demand, the price level, wages and employment, interest and profits...
...repeat, a betrayal of the trust placed in us by society. It is to mistake a privilege for an inalienable right, exactly as the nobility and clergy of France forgot that their feudal privileges were merely payment for their services of protection and consolation and continued to demand those privileges long after they had ceased to do their duty. Society today is little tolerant of useless shibboleths. If we demand our privileges and refuse our duties we cannot expect so long a shrift as was granted the "ancien regime," and we can only hope that our fall...
...innuendoes. Crack! and Crack! the Negro Deputy struck twice in the face with La Liberté one of its editorial writers. Deputy Desire Ferry. Smack!-Writer Ferry retorted with a punch to the jaw which sent Martinique's Lagrosillière reeling groggily, then shouted at him, "I demand satisfaction by arms...
...this is, of course, merely the first step in a new diplomatic policy which will aim to counteract the friendliness for the Soviet which has sprung up recently. It will probably not be eventually successful because the essential Japanese demand which cannot be disguised--a free hand in the Far East--is not acceptable to the powers. It may, however, have the effect of postponing the Russo-Japanese war which is now accepted as inevitable, while the Japanese try to change the international balance which is now so heavily weighted against them. NEMO...