Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing emphasis on Inter-House athletics, as indicated by the recent decision permitting men on probation to compete, has created a demand even stronger than before for the extension of permission to past letter men and those on the Varsity. While the authorities have endeavored to insure everyone the opportunity of competing in intramural sports, they have to some extent overlooked the fact that a keener rivalry would induce even more men to participate; a reorganization is in this respect necessary...
These films are being given because of popular demand following similar French motion pictures...
...Russia delights in Comrade Litvinov's best known performance: a blunt demand at every European disarmament conference for complete and immediate disarmament, which never fails to show up the quibbling and hypocrisy of his Capitalist colleagues, despite the Soviet Army of 800,000 men. But Comrade Litvinov does really believe in total disarmament and has frequently presented a plan calling for reduction, not limitation, of armaments, according to a mathematical formula. He blazed with anger in 1929 when little U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson privately denounced the Litvinov Plan as presented in bad faith, then presented a plan...
...cost of finished dresses so low that little home dressmaking is done. Big scissor years were 1928 and 1929. People who then would pay $1 or $1.25 for scissors now want them for 49? retail. Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors. Manicuring scissors remain in steady demand, but buttonhole scissors are becoming obsolete and cheap German iron (not steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast iron, not forged steel, cannot be, sharpened...
...spite of the fact that the mechanics of the course demand endless reading reports and "lectures obligatoires," which harass the student before frequent hour exams, the outside reading itself is carefully picked to include the best works of each period, and can be made thoroughly enjoyable if not done under pressure...