Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the responsibility for the disorder which is sure to arise if conditions continue. ... It would be with great reluctance that we would ask for a Dole. . . . Everything else suggested has either failed or has been denied. If something is not immediately done we will be obliged to demand a Dole. . . The unemployed citizens we represent will not accept starvation...
...Such cases as tumor of the brain, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the prostate of Raynaud's disease may demand consultation with specialists or their technical services. . . . But to the wage earner who is attempting, with his family, to subsist on $30 a week, a pain in the epigastrium is just cramps and not allergic abdominal migraine...
...thing, it seems, that many university officials imagine is a demand by the college Negro for social opportunities. This is a tragic delusion, for nothing is further from the intelligent Negro's mind. He has long ago become socially self-sufficient-and especially in a city as large as Boston, social satisfaction is quite obtainable. What he does expect includes the practical advantages that his university can offer: the opportunity to learn by conversation, and, if necessary, by invitation. These are pitifully denied him at Harvard. Of the four Negro members of the Class of 1932, all of whom...
...Edith Berkman we have a concrete example of economic tendencies in our own country. By its nearness is arising an opportunity or rather a demand for students to take a stand. Will it be for enlightened communism, in spite of cynical ideas about the childishness of a hunger strike, or will it be for a support of capitalism even to the degradation of United States democratic principles? The Radcliffe Daily...
...Practical journalists have derided these admittedly radical college editors and have cited them as valid reasons for a literal "chaining" of the college editor. We, in turn, could easily find in this history of American journalism many examples of prejudiced, radical editors and editorials. Would that justify our consequent demand for curtailment of the liberty of the press with regard to editorials...