Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moorings. But when this has been achieved, the real point at issue will be whether American commodity prices have been materially improved. Those that are international, like wheat and cotton, will go up as does gold. Other products will depend in the future, as in the past, on the demand for them. And demand depends on confidence and spending power, both of which have not yet come with full force in the domestic program of the administration
...almost every course in Fine Arts requires that a certain number of photographs be memorized, and reproductions of these cannot be removed from the Museum. It is therefore only possible to study Fine Arts before five o'clock on week days. This is the more difficult as many courses demand laboratory work to be done in the daytime, and the library serving both Harvard and Radcliffe is crowded as well as small. Accordingly, many concentrators spend their mornings at lectures, their afternoons making color charts, and their evenings twiddling their thumbs and praying they will pass their courses in Fine...
...this crime of a mob," said the Baltimore Sun, "is the lynching of civilization in this State. The law-abiding citizens of Maryland are entitled to demand that the Governor of the State use the power of the State to protect the laws of the State. . . . They will not tolerate dodging of responsibility...
...pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven. Says he: "Of course, contemporary music should be heard and if there were no one else to play it, I would do so myself. But the opposite is the case. The demand for first performances has meant that many works are born and buried at the same time. They go from the cradle to the grave in a single concert...
...three things to plan; what we shall produce, how much of it we shall produce, and who is going to produce it. The essence of capitalism is that these questions shall be automatically solved by the price system, by the operation of certain obvious laws of supply and demand. If we can buy a million automobiles, they will be manufactured; if we need them, but cannot pay for them, it is witless to order that they shall be nonetheless compounded...