Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Establishing the demand for teachers in various fields...
Fournier has also promised to pay Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, in full on a similar charge at 8:30 a.m. this morning. The third claim hanging against Fournier was wiped out today when Burton K. Williams 3L was paid $16.66 on his demand that Fournier buy back a couch he had sold him as promised...
...than Harry Truman in his requests, and sometimes it saved him later embarrassment. When he asked for an anti-inflation program (including wage & price controls, Government authority to build steel plants) at a time when deflation was obviously in progress, Congress brusquely threw it overboard, lock, stock & barrel. His demand for $4 billion in new taxes was similarly ignored; so was his request for $800 million for universal military training...
...Hope. Phil Murray traveled the grimy U.S. Steel belt, trying to bolster the morale of his striking followers, vowing to stick to his demand for 10?-an-hour pensions and insurance financed solely by the industry. Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching spent a futile week in Washington and New York City talking with steel-industry leaders...
...years he worked among them as doctor and minister of Christ, but for many years his work as a missionary had to be carefully hidden. While working long hours at his dispensary, he found time to compile the first Japanese-English dictionary, which was so much in demand that three years after its publication copies were selling for as much as $62. The system of transliteration which he invented is still used to convert Japanese characters into Roman letters. In 1880, working with other missionaries, Hepburn completed a translation of the Bible into Japanese; for a time the wooden blocks...