Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large burden of the work falls upon the writer. Because the cost of printing is unconscionably high, remuneration to the author is small or altogether lacking. Moreover the type of the books is often redistributed after a small edition is published, before there is time to discover whether demand warrants reprints...
Facts. It was announced that the original ransom demand (not yet made public) was found some hours after the child's disappearance was discovered, and not, as originally reported, when Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh first rushed with Nurse Betty Gow into the nursery. And both parents were not downstairs when Nurse Gow found the crib empty. Mrs. Lindbergh was on the second floor taking a bath. Learning that Mrs. Lindbergh did not have the baby, Nurse Gow went downstairs to see if the child was with his father (who calls...
...longer would judges try their own contempt cases growing out of a labor fracas. Instead defendants could demand a jury, even another judge...
...capital from production to tax-free government securities. But these are minor points in the light of the dangers of the sales tax. The tax directly affects those elements of the public most likely to make violent protest against the increased burden. Protest will hardly take from as a demand for more economical and efficient government, though it is obvious that without governmental reform the solution of the tax problem can not be permanent. But instead of demanding that expensive subsidies to veterans and bureaucratic, extravagance be abolished, the cry will go up prematurely for socialism or for government poor...
...announcement that University officials have at last recognized the serious problem presented by room rents which make an undue demand on student finances, and that they are taking some steps, however preliminary, to correct the situation, must be hailed with satisfaction. But the conduct of the House Plan from the financial point of view has not been altogether capable, and even the promised situation is far from satisfactory...