Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to show that it is the retailer, although God known the diatiller is cutting down his profits to only about four or five hundred per cent. There is some excuse for these extraordinary prices in the case of whiskey where the supply is completely inadequate to meet the demand. With gin which can be manufactured in ten days at the most there is absolutely no justification for the present scale of prices; it represents nothing more nor less than a sincere effort on the part of the distiller to some extent and, on a much larger scale...
...insure a supply of liquor for that city which will be labeled properly, it is doubtful it they will result in any substantial decrease in prices. What is needed is very obviously some sort of Federal regulation for the whole liquor industry which would have the power to demand that the product be pure and to set prices, retail as well as wholesale. For the state governments have shown that they are unable to handle these functions any more than they are capable of ascertaining the amount of liquor taxes intelligently...
...managed to maintain essentially a full program. Through it all, he has resisted all pressure to countenance the commercialization of Harvard sport. In comparison with other athletic directors, his conception of the place of athletics in a college has been the opitome of sanity. In justification of his present demand for new sources of income, he can point to the undoubted economics already effected. He can call attention to the tremendous load carried by the H.A.A. in the form of an expensive plant and a parasitic physical education program. He can show how other colleges have curtailed their athletic programs...
...abstract I should like to see this doubtful method of control and measurement of intellectual progress abolished. I recognize, however, that the abandonment of this typically American pedagogic device would demand extraordinary readjustments. These readjustments would be required, notably in the attitude of average American parents who would almost certainly be distressed beyond measure if a son or daughter failed to obtain an A.B. degree at the end of a period of study; and also in the attitude of State School Boards...
...office of this kind would be valuable not only as a solvent of inter-departmental red tape; it might be able to face the persistent problems of student aid with the continuity and courage that they demand. The emergency student employment, for example, has tended to become more literal minded than is necessary. Some of the jobs which have burgeoned under its hand, such as the museum bone dusting, have only a nominal utility; others, such as the library label sticking, occupy so much time as to militate against the fact that Harvard is, after all, a college, and that...