Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They've apparently picked the Princeton game to bring their dates to," W. Henry Johnson, HAA publicity director explained, for the sales were unexpectedly high today. This is in contrast to the demand for Holy Cross ducats which has been unusually light...
...unexpectedly heavy demand by seniors is expected to be repeated in the lower classes. This will mean in all likelihood that juniors and sophomores will share sections 35 and 36 with the overflow being out in sections 28 and 29 at the other end of the field. Freshmen will probably find their seats in the colonade...
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury and vice president of the Alliance, society for the encouragement of sex education, backed the demand. "I am not saying," he insisted, "that the obtaining of contraceptives in the ordinary way by adults should be curtailed. It is the indiscriminate, uncontrolled provision of them that is entirely evil. Children growing up in a world in which it is hard for them to avoid knowing too much about sex . . . now find it blatantly easy to turn their knowledge into practice...
Unless this late demand is larger than the HAA estimates, the stands will be emptier this Saturday than they have been for any Dartmouth games in recent history. This is true despite the fact that for the first time tickets are not redeemable...
...three days of business since the opening of the name-clearance bureau, about 40 sellers' names have been given to seekers of Army game tickets. Two would be economists were caught taking advantage of the high demand by trying to get more than the list price for their small supply of tickets. Council agents phoned both and warned them of a newly adopted plan to "blacklist" scalpers and publish their names in, a Council bulletin...