Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he did have something to say ex-President Cosgrave shocked many Britons by announcing that should he win the election he would not resume the annuity payments in full but will demand that Britain scale them down. "We must have a new agreement based on our capacity to pay," said Mr. Cosgrave. "This country like all others has been caught in the world slump. . . . We want negotiation with Britain. ... If we win the election, as I fully expect we will, I'll guarantee that three days after the Dail meets on Feb. 8, I can settle all outstanding...
...Roosevelt owes his election largely to Catholics, who will demand that the Washington government bring pressure on Mexico in any conflict between this government and the Church...
...funeral. Always a zealous pathologist, he pictured Coolidge in Death a great help to medicine and a good example to the nation, exclaimed: "I only hope an autopsy will be performed. If the family will permit it. they will be doing a great service in stimulating public demand for such post-mortem determination of the exact cause of death. It will do much to eliminate the existing, and foolish, American repugnance to autopsies...
...improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession? Could we, even if we would, stop this development and bring back the times when every married woman had her baby in her home? We could not! This rapidly increasing demand for hospitalization of delivery cases, which is found all over the world, does not come alone from the medical profession but is a demand of the public itself. The reasons seem to be multiple. Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have...
...Human evolution is largely a matter of brain expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage now where we have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. Eskimos are almost the only human race in whom dental degeneration is not manifest...