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Word: demandingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Strike Town | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

White's idea costs money. Last week, he reported a $30,000 deficit to his trustees. It didn't seem to bother him. "That's as it should be," he beamed. "A school of this sort should have deficit activities. Artist-teachers demand, rightfully, artists' fees, which most students cannot afford. What's the solution? Endowment. We want five million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First on the Coast | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

This is because most people don't want to go there. For the past three years, Leverett has won the booby-prize on freshmen House applications and has often flunked the supply-and-demand test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Claims Good Staff, Beer Parties, and Vacancies | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

LAKE SUCCESS, March 17 (UP)--The case of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty was placed before the United Nations today with an implied demand for some sort of punitive action against communist-of punitive action against Communist-dominated Hungary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN May Test Mindszenty Issue | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...read praise of his magnificent voice. This was, however, the first time I had seen him act (pose in this case in probably a better word), and D'Oyly Carte's Mikado never excelled him in evil expression. Handel's bass arias are distinguished for the acrobatics they demand. Tibbetts showed his complete competence, however, and some breath control that I haven't heard surpassed...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

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