Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geography, originally scheduled to be shown tonight at 8.15 o'clock, and tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock and 8.15 o'clock, will also be shown tomorrow evening at 6.15 o'clock, it was learned yesterday. The additional showing of the film is being done due to the great demand for tickets. Admission to this extra performance tomorrow night at 6.15 o'clock will be by free tickets obtainable at the door...
...advent of Ballyhoo had nothing to do with Life's change, according to the publishers. Newsstand sales did suffer in the week of Ballyhoo's first issue (TIME, July 6) but they have been slightly above normal since then, possibly because Ballyhoo stimulated the demand for funny magazines...
...understood that Standard Oil will dominate the field by ownership of 50% of Lycoming United stock, followed by 30% for Columbia Gas, 20% for Benedum-Trees. The market Lycoming United will serve is the Syracuse area, active industrial district directly north of Tioga, where there is a potential annual demand for 10 billion cu. ft. (Buffalo, second biggest city in New York, has had natural gas service for several years from the Wayne-Dundee field in the western part of the State. New York City is still without any natural gas connections...
First the Theatre Guild got the script of Brief Moment, asked Mr. Woollcott to play the easygoing, quipful part of the helpful intermediary. He refused. Then Katharine Cornell bought it, made the same request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after...
...imperative is not chiefly the need of judging rightly the original ability of the more brilliant candidates. It is rather the need of encouraging that ability. The type of examination set is important principally because it moulds the attitude of both undergraduates and instructors toward tutorial work. If divisionals demand primarily factual knowledge, the acquisition of facts is likely to become the student's goal...