Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Demand for an investigation into the causes of the death of F. William Burgess, Freshman law student, whose body was found in the Charles River Sunday moring, awaited the arrival of the parents of the dead boy from Cincinnati...
After many inquiries, and a search during two summers in the most likely museums of Europe, the man still remains unknown. But the work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...
...four major issues of the day big business and little business stand shoulder to shoulder, proving that in some respects their interests are not incompatible. Both appear dubious about the merits of the wages and hours bill; both approve the Housing Act; both demand that credit facilities be extended; and both feel that labor unions should be held responsible in contracts. Through representative groups perhaps the differences between big business, little business, and government might be settled so that all three could turn the Utopian corner called Prosperity...
...connection with the demand for old examinations, which comes twice a year, is another demand which deserves the attention of librarians now. The constantly changing nomenclature of courses in the various departments has led to mild confusion in the use of the examinations that have been placed on reserve. If some young librarian were to closet himself in the bowels of Widener with an armful of catalogues and emerge sometime before June with an accurate list of what courses used to be and are now, a whole generation of Harvard men would rise up and call him blessed...
Referring to the loss of Odell and Crowther, he said. "It is only natural that assistant coaches should be desirous of bettering themselves whenever possible and we must consider it a good sign here at Harvard when our assistants are in demand by other colleges...