Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the ex-President available, in case France's crisis should become so grave as to demand formation of a "National Government" above party, President Lebrun tentatively picked another politician of the moderate Left, told pugnacious Edouard Deladier, son of a baker, once protege of Edouard Herriot and War Minister, under Paul-Boncour, to try to form a Cabinet...
Only Author Lewis has two year's best sellers to his credit: Main Street (1920), Elmer Gantry (1927). Last week the New York Public Library said it would need more than 40 copies of his newly published Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30) if it wished to satisfy public demand. Since the Library is unable to afford the expenditure, it will not stock Ann Vickers at all until next year, then one copy...
...demand of the Government whether Japan has a definite foreign policy!" screamed Mr. Ashida, well knowing that he may be assassinated for his rashness. "The public is growing fearful that we are being dragged blindly by the Army in an uncharted, pitch-black abyss. I appeal to the War Minister to forsake the notion that the Japanese Army is almighty...
Except in case of 100% natural disasters such as earthquakes & typhoons, Japanese ethics demand that when things go radically wrong in the Empire someone should voluntarily make himself the scapegoat. Last week Tokyo censors released the news that last year 6,900 Japanese had to be arrested as "Communist suspects." Things have gone so wrong that the Reds seized were found to include young men & women of high Tokyo society: three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers...
These innovations, then, are in line with the modern demand for the broad view; they aim away in theory, from the mere accumulation of isolated facts. In short, they are made in the same spirit as was the introduction of divisionals at Harvard. The study of Law, however, is a different matter from the general education sought in a college. According to the expressed opinions of those professors in the Law School who have had experience in general practice, cramming is not necessarily a bad thing, for the student in any case is learning to locate facts when he needs...