Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consist of four units, the vocal club, the mandolin club, the banjo club, and the jazz orchestra. Each of these will hold a competition, and in addition tryouts for specialty numbers will be held. In the last-named department, magicians, vocal and instrumental soloists, and ventriloquists are especially in demand...
...announcement that Italy and France have reached an agreement on the limitation of their respective navies will undoubtedly cause sighs of relief in diplomatic circles. The conflicting spheres of influence of the two countries and the announcement that Italy would demand revision of the Versailles Treaty has made the continued failure of that country and France to join in the Naval Limitations Pact seem especially ominous. It is to be hoped that the agreement is the herald of a decrease in the tension between...
...purpose of enhancing the abundance of music that is included in the film, the producers have employed the simplest of plots. In brief, a celebrated Viennese composer who is working on the score of a new operetta has all the music completed except the customary waltz, which his producers demand, and which for some reason or another he is unable to create, despite the fact that the words have been already written by the librettists of the production...
...have a very definite relation to the work which the student is planning to do when he graduates, for at this time when so many colleges are finding their enrollments distinctly reduced Technology has reached its greatest size. The cause of this distinctive growth appears to be that the demand for the practical education which this institution gives without requiring a college degree for entrance has increased more than the average personal income has decreased...
...Refused as "impossible" St. Gandhi's demand that, as an evidence of British good faith, the salt laws be suspended at once, terminating the British salt monopoly, and making it possible, among other things, for Indian farmers to lead their cattle down to the sea for a salty drink, which is now illegal...