Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agassiz Theatre has also been suggested as a site for the center, but the building is in great demand now, and will continue to be at least until the new theatre is built, according to Watson...
...citizen of Bolivia I would like to apologize for the stoning of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. On the other hand, I demand an apology from your magazine for your controversial article about Bolivia. Your article reflected the still-remaining thought in the U.S. that friendship can be bought...
...staid Federal Reserve Board last week issued its harshest criticism of U.S. price-boosting heard in recent years. Up before the Senate antitrust subcommittee stepped the Fed's research director, Ralph A. Young, with the charge that industry's price hikes-notably in autos and steel-cut demand and employment even further during the recession. Industry, he said, "needs to use more often the time-tested prescription of lower prices as a cure for inadequate demand and to resort less to appeals to Government...
...tonality, since each note is equal, i.e. none of them is emphasized as tonality emphasizes its main tone, its resting point. A substantial part of the system's appeal to composers lies in its highly organized nature: the destruction of the complex system of tonal relations seems to demand another complicated set of rules. Schoenberg, the twelvetone pioneer, set up such a system, but curiously enough he retained much of the texture and form of tonal music, writing works that might be said to resemble Brahms quartets played through a twelvetone baffle...
...specified places. However, as is frequently true, the 'Cliffie soon discovered that what works well in theory fails in practice. Reserve books disappeared at an alarming rate, and students and faculty complained. The library then instituted an open-reserve system for reference and source books not currently in great demand and a rotating closed-reserve system for books in daily...