Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary examination of the blanks shows that applications for rooms priced at $260 or less are considerably in excess of the number available, while the demand for rooms priced at above $260 is less than the supply. For this reason a notice was posted in the Union on Tuesday asking all Freshmen who could afford to do so, to increase their stated maximum rental to include rooms priced above $260. Even when students cannot raise their maximum above $260, they are urged to relieve the demand for rooms at the lowest prices, by increasing the maximum amount by as much...
This film is the first to be offered in response to student demands for showings of German talking films at Harvard. Arthur Burkhard, assistant professor of German, and C. L. Kuhn, curator of the Germanic Museum, have carried on exhaustive inquiries with New York film distributors with a view to securing a class A German-made film. It was emphasized by the committee in charge that the reception accorded "Barberina" would decide the question of whether or not showings of German films would be continued. If the demand for tickets at this performance warrants the continuance of the films...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
...DEMAND FOR PHOTOPLAY TALKING PICTURE & MAGAZINE STORIES...
...March 1933 he issued the first pronunciamento of the "Committee for the Nation" (see p. 45), probably the most far-reaching demand for inflation yet formulated by responsible businessmen: devaluation of the dollar and "enforced increase of commodity prices...