Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These conflicts probably will be in due time ironed out but they constitute deflationary influences which are preventing a demand for goods and products from achieving natural growth--something that would bring the price level up faster than any tinkering with gold prices by buying and selling bullion...
...inflames the faubourgs; if they are made privy to gin and the bright lights, they know them only as the tools of a class abstracted from their own pursuits and pointed up for envy and hostility. But a session with the Legion makes them think twice before they demand that the theatres and the distilleries should be expunged as unholy in the rural theology. It gives them vinous experience not in barns but on lounges, and frees them from the enchantment of the pulp presses. Though its dogma and its excesses may be appalling enough, a liberal dose of Legion...
...conflict in this question remains, however, between the almost universal demand for athletic recognition among lightweight men, and the claims of exclusively inter-House football. Quite excusably the petitioners are not overwhelmed by the attractions of House football, more popular this year among the heavyweights, and withal far less developed in the style of its game. Even last year only 25 per cent or less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity...
...more than a monstrous invasion of individual privacy." That journalism is sufficiently isolated in Great Britain to make its proboscis glitter; in the republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent save for the wholesale violation of confidence and the ambiguous techniques of defamation. For one of these men the republic has reserved a special, an unprecedented kudos; his melancholy...
Bingham's statement was made in reply to a demand by Thomas W. Slocum '90, former president of the Harvard Club of New York City, that Harvard in company with other Eastern colleges refuse to maintain athletic relations with West Point unless the Military Academy agrees to adopt the three-year varsity eligibility rule. Slocum made this speech at a dinner of the Harvard Club of New York and completely surprised his fellow members. Since no action can be taken until 1935, there has been no recent discussion of the matter, and with the break between Army and Navy healed...