Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course credits, in the idea that a college should award its degree on the basis of separate goals achieved, and the achievement recorded. To this conviction is linked an idea incomprehensible to the European, the idea that the college should police the minds of its undergraduates, perpetually making trivial demand upon their time, perpetually demanding that Tuesday, or at least next Tuesday, should make the proper entry on the quality of Monday's effort. For it is very easy to do this, and it is very difficult to frame examinations which index not the acquisition of fact, but the knowledge...
Both of the men now unemployed have received offers, and will probably have work within a week. Moreover, the School has had many calls for men lately which it has been unable to fill. One of the main reasons that there has been such a great demand for landscape architects is President Roosevelt's Reconstruction Program, in the form of the Citizen's Conservation Corps and the Public Works Program...
...money while pulsating with opposition-now secret, now blatant-to Generalissimo Chiang. Last week Canton's blatancy became a scream as her Government, headed by General Chen Chi-tang, who had just received an especially large subsidy in the hope of squaring him, telegraphed to Nanking a demand that the Generalissimo resign...
...problem of wages is the problem of the labor market. It is a waste of breath to talk about raising wages in any other way than through the betterment of the labor market, and this market, like any other, can be improved in two ways only; by increasing the demand for labor, or by reducing the supply of it. How to increase the demand is a difficult and inclusive problem. To a certain extent, taking more men employers would produce this effect. There are at least two definite ways of reducing the supply of labor in this country. The first...
...cost of imported wines assumed astronomical proportions. These unfortunate circumstances have been laid off variously to taxes, protection of home industries, and to what retailers vaguely call "high wholesale charges." The fairly evident fact that the manufacturers are putting on the screws in the face of a great demand was not mentioned by any of the merchants...