Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates have carried their inexcusable practices with them into the House Plan. In the transfer, some new tricks have been added to those well known at Widener in days before the introduction of a strict administration, buttressed by turnstiles; but the general methods remain the same. Books in especial demand disappear before every important examination. New rules restricting members to their own House library and confining the use of overnight books to the House from which they were issued are flagrantly violated...
...Geninses are cases of a complete split between the intellectual and emotional sides of human nature. With mind divorced from the emotions greater concentration is possible, but occasionally the emotions that have been sublimated will unconsciously demand release. This accounts for the periodic violent debaucheries that geniuses frequently indulge...
Conducting research in heat transfer, Mr. F. Downie-Smith is working in Dunbar Laboratory of the Engineering School with a specially constructed apparatus for determining thermal conductivity. This work is the direct result of a demand made by the oil refining industry for reliable information concerning rates of heat transfer...
...sense this bill is a national defense measure. By freeing vast amounts of gold it [enables] the Federal Reserve Banks to meet any conceivable demand on them at home or from abroad. . . . The gradual credit contraction during the last eight months, arising indirectly from causes originating in foreign countries and continued domestic deflation, but more directly from hoarding, has been unquestionably the major factor in depressing prices and delaying business recovery. ... I trust that our banks now will reach out to aid business and industry in such fashion as to increase employment...
...since he was 16), Cartoonist Hershfield looks and acts in every way the opposite of "Abie." Exceedingly popular, he claims to know more persons in Manhattan than anyone else not in public life. He has been photographed with eight prizefight champions, is an accomplished diner out, is in perpetual demand as a toastmaster. Also he is a practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name on a modiste's advertisement card in the window, he telephoned...