Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear that one must view the revelations of this report. No longer can it be said that education has a broadening influence. And the new generation has the longitudinal straitness of preceding days without complementary virtues. A woman will still take a foot if offered an inch, and men demand still longer single beds...
...England which has been losing gold to the U. S. Over a longer period, agreed bankers last week, it should encourage foreign financing in the U. S., likewise issues by domestic companies. Yet last week the state of U. S. business was such that no sudden demand for funds was expected, no immediate revival held likely...
Owing to the large demand for seats at the three performances of "For Someone Else", given this week by the Cambridge School of the Drama, officials of the organization have decided to hold a fourth showing of the play especially for members of Harvard University, on Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the Rogers Building, Broad-way and Cambridge Street. Any Harvard student may obtain one ticket, free of charge, by applying at the Rogers Building between 9 and 5 o'clock today, or 9 and 1 o'clock tomorrow...
...Last week Bombay despatches reported that Indian merchants are now clearing their shelves of British cloth by "selling it in Persia, Irak and East Africa at less than production costs." Indian cloth mills at Bombay are enjoying boom prosperity, running 24 hours a day to keep pace with the demand, while more and more British mills close down in depressed, despairing Lancashire...
...crucifixion with a Flanders battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street." It included the figures of Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, the Holy Ghost, a perspective view of Tottenham Court Road, a steam roller, a baby Austin, a motorcycle...