Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person loses a thin dime. . . . Watch for Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...
...meals per week which each Freshman will be allowed need not be as great as is allowed each upperclassman who takes 21 meals. As a tentative opening, each man might be allowed one meal a week in any House he chose. Authorities, moreover, have small reason to fear a demand for a reciprocal agreement, allowing upperclassmen to eat in the Union. In short, a move allowing Freshmen limited inter-House dining privileges would be well advised; it could scarcely lead to the abuses which its opponents fear...
...National Student's League, destined to watch over, the needs of those of the unemployed who have had a college training. Its detailed alms are well summed up by the authors: "Actuated by a sincere belief that society should aid us until we can find positions, we demand unemployment insurance for jobless graduates. . .and free courses in graduate schools to help us retain our professional skill that we may be of some value when society needs us again...
...Chemistry Department of the University occupies a position apart, because of its organization. All subjects requiring laboratories display a certain degree of cold, mechanical artificiality in their departmental arrangements. The complicated functions of a system containing scientific instruments of value, and large floor space, demand centralized control. But the Chemistry Department has gone further than this. The formalities of the various courses are gone through with the aid of awesome printed forms, all of the same general type. The laboratories are all the same, are governed by the same regulations, and in every case are run with astounding efficiency...
...morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...