Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried on with a fond belief in the possibility of driving some Houses out of business altogether. Another evil, directly resulting from the present ruling, is the tendency of orchestras to make their minimum the House's maximum and hold out for a higher figure than they would ordinarily demand...
...Italy, public dissections were held in university halls and were occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected girl...
...most unpredictable factor in selecting young instructors," he said, "seems to me not their promise in research but their teaching ability, and the proposed initial three-year appointments would unduly tie the hands of the University in cases where the interests of good instruction might demand an earlier change...
...made his views clear at a press conference shortly after renewing his demand that Congress appropriate an additional $150,000,000 for relief or assume full responsibility for hardships to 5,000,000 W.P.A. workers and their dependents resulting from the current economy drive...
...mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that it be put on a voluntary basis. Perhaps an employment office to provide summer work can be instituted. But if there should be any attempt to use the bargaining power of the closed shop as a big stick with which to beat unreasonable concessions from the University...