Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew opened a hole as big as the blast of a torpedo in the Russian case. Newspaper dispatches called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory over such a problem; the outcome appeared rather to be an instance in which a simple demand for candor, and an insistence on simple humanitarian considerations, exercised an astonishing force. In Washington Secretary of State Hull issued a stinging resume of the case that listed contradictions in Russia's position, reiterated the U. S. claim that the ship be returned, and sounded the democratic note again...
This underground sentiment has not gone unheeded, for if the library is made of stone, certainly its administrative staff is not. They have realized this student demand for longer library hours and have made half-way attempts to remedy the situation. For example, Boylston Reading Room--which, together with other specialty collections, is as much a part of the University Library as Widener itself--has been kept open all Saturday afternoon and evening. Formerly it was closed at one o'clock on Saturdays. Thus it is now open seven days in the week...
...this is but a small step in the right direction. Far more important is the opening of Widener on Sundays. This is a large demand, but it can be quite simply granted, although certain financial facts must be first considered...
...favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have...
...that was needed to make War II the legitimate heir to War I was a knitting bee, and busily clacking their needles this week were more than 5,000,000 British women, more than one-ninth of the whole population of the Kingdom. Yet with the demand for yarn ten times greater than in peacetime, the price last week was successfully held to eightpence (14?) per ounce, up just a penny from the pre-war level...