Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
...last week the head pressman at the Baltimore Evening Sun took a quick squint at one of the first copies of his paper, excitedly stopped the press and came bounding upstairs to demand: "Hey! What's the matter with the editorial page...
...note a few chapter headings, will ignore the work until about three days before the book is due. All but the more conscientious students of the more intricate volumes can complete the appointed task in two weeks. Those who cannot, may renew the book in the absence of demand. Their long and perhaps unnecessary trek to the delivery desk may be inconvenient, but this inconvenience must be balanced against the irritation of those who have to wait unnecessarily long periods...
...averages, confirmed by Widener investigation, shows that of the books that have been borrowed, half have been out more than two weeks when demanded, half less than two weeks. For that reason, Metcalf said, the project of limiting loans to two weeks, subject to renewal if no demand had been made, was "being seriously considered." He pointed out, however, that only six percent of the borrowers would benefit from this plan, whereas many would be inconvenienced...
...basis of information obtained by a questionnaire survey, Professor Pond reported that although landscape architecture is one of the smallest professions, it is one of the most highly paid. Recently there has been an increasing public demand for scientific designing of land areas...