Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a protracted Senate haggle over Louisiana's petty politics, Senator James Couzens of Michigan one day last week cut with a staccato demand: "Mr. President, I desire unanimous consent to take up, out of order, Senate Joint Resolution 256. It is of considerable importance." The Senate gave its consent. The reading clerk unintelligibly rattled out the contents of S. J. R. 256 and two minutes later, without debate or even notation by drowsy newshawks, it was unanimously passed...
...With the immediate future of literature, however, we may justly concern ourselves, but of this we need not despair. We should not demand a Shakespeare every ten years; we should be grateful to have one Shakespeare. The present is, undoubtedly, a period of change, and the forms of literature are changing with everything else. There is a rapid replacement of literary generations, every one of which brings something new to the standards and styles which we have already...
...Congress, New York's Hamilton Fish Jr. has dropped his demand that President Hecht resign as chairman of the New Orleans R. F. C. advisory committee...
...H.A.A. might do well to consider elasticity of demand, for it would be much better to sell many tickets at $2.50 and $5 than to treasure a collection of valuable $5 and $10 tickets. The very few people who might pay the full price at this late date after foregoing the possession of a ticket for a half year, do not warrant the maintenance of these prices to the fact that many others prices in face of the fact that many others shave been awaiting a reduction of the price in order to get a half year of Athletics...
...alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly thee is no other large body which, conceding the premises upon which American higher education is based, would be so well fitted as the vanguard for the ideas and the initiative which the problems of a complex society demand...