Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capita is tremendously on the increase. To decrease expenditures, even when deficits are inevitable seems impossible, even to check the giddy rise of state spending is a problem of the greatest difficulty. One of democracy's remaining anchors to windward is sensitivity and consequent self-corrective possibilities. When demand for a product ceases, the producers soon discover the change and production is curtailed. The public as a whole does not continue to pay for unwanted produce as it must in a rigid Communistic system, where wants are dictated. When politicians or business leaders of a certain type are found incompetent...
...after a tour of the Holy Land without passport or papers of identity. Only in Germany was he halted. Don Alfonso crushed the Zollinspektor by shouting: "Look here, my man, I am an admiral in your navy, a general in your cavalry, a colonel in the Uhlans and I demand your salute...
...ordinary man who can dispense with the prestige and front-page value of high public office for more than a decade and still enjoy a generous popular demand for his presidential candidacy. The more fact of being executive of a large, and especially a politically doubtful, state in spite apart from other considerations, sufficient for a name in be listed among the White House eligibles. Such are the magic properties of being a governor, a senator or a speaker of the house that immediately one becomes simply an ex-so-and-so the gate of early oblivion is open...
...pamphlet form copies of the address of S. E. Morison '08, "The Young Man Washington", will be issued to satisfy the great demand and approbation which met the speech which was delivered in Sanders Theatre at the celebration of Washington's Birthday...
Apart from its special features, Yale's problem is that of every large university situated in a small city. Especially in times of depression, the demand that the universities forego, in whole or part, their special privileges, is bound to recur. Harvard's "gentleman's agreement" with Cambridge sprang from a similar situation and a similar feeling. The material and intellectual advantages which a locality derive from the presence of a great university are not sufficient, in times of economic stress, to compensate for the loss of revenue from the tax exemptions of wealthy institutions. The pressure of taxation...