Word: demands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...article by Mr. Gage in the current issue of Moody's Magazine, it appears that the United States currency system is built on an artificial and unscientific basis, by which credit, which governs 80 per cent of the world's trade, may be broken down before a sudden demand for cash. This the banks cannot satisfy on account of their obligation to deposit in the treasury of the United States bonds to the amount of the notes they propose to issue...
...tonger respect symbols. The robe of the priest and mere matters of form tend to lose their position of respect as democracy increases, but in their place comes an estimation of the true value of the facts represented. We see that the symbols represent the true type that we demand. There is no diminution of reverence of the true God and the power of the University. True reverence is perfectly consistent with genuine democracy, and a belief in this fact is necessary to the attainment of the ideal democracy...
Professor Pickering, in his introductory address to the President, makes an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for funds for the care of the collection of 182,277 photographs. This collection is unique and gives the only existing history of the stellar universe for the past 20 years. Fire-proof buildings are especially needed for the library, photographic laboratory and the workshop. The total number of volumes and of pamphlets in the library on October 1, 1905, was 11,459 and 24,474, respectively...
Later in the year there will be a demand for many mute figures to fill the positions of soldiers and the like...
...clock, and dinner from 5.30 to 8 o'clock. Besides membership tickets separate tickets for luncheon and dinner will be required. About 25 extra dinner tickets are still left, but all the luncheon tickets have been sold, and a large number of applications remain unfilled. Because of this unexpected demand a light luncheon will be served from 10 till 8 o'clock at the lunch counter downstairs...