Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes at least seven years to make a doctor-two years of premedical courses (many medical schools demand four), four years in a medical school, one to three years of interning. Thus most physicians do not open offices until they are almost 30, and many of them know little but medicine, understand nothing of the relation of their science to society, find no relaxation in art, music and literature...
BERLIN--The semi-official organ of the German Foreign Office restated Germany's colonial claims today, using Great Britain's mounting armaments appropriation, announced yesterday, as a spring board for the new demand...
...ballet, Parade. It has never been publicly known that Picasso not only did the cubist decor for this extravaganza but rewrote Cocteau's book. In Rome he fell in love with a minor member of the Diaghilev ballet, Olga Koklova, and found himself faced with the unusual demand for a Russian-Orthodox Church marriage. In 1918 the marriage took place in Paris, and the Picassos moved into the two top floors of a heavy, expensive, Second Empire house...
...Best guess is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,500. Since Rubens, with a whole "factory" of apprentices, turned out less than 3,000, it is likely that Picasso has been the most prolific first-rater who ever lived. In any logical system of supply and demand, a Picasso ought to be cheap. But Picassos are notoriously not cheap, and for this there are two explanations...
Businessmen habitually err, however, in regarding inventory size alone as an indication of business conditions. For, if demand is large, big inventories can readily be absorbed. But if production continues up regardless of demand, even small inventories may prove excessive. Last week a few economists were claiming that such is the case now. Economics Statistics, Inc. (of Manhattan) held that soaring industrial production, following last spring's depletion of inventories, had once more over-replenished inventories-enough to account for the current slump in industrial production and stock prices...