Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raisuli, son of the desert, had captured Ion Perdicaris, U. S. citizen, son of a Greek who had been dwelling in Morocco for some 20 years. When the Sultan of Morocco heard Roosevelt's stentorian demand, he agreed to Raisuli's demand and Perdicaris was released...
Your safety may demand that you act immediately; vacate the car and CALL A POLICEMAN...
...quoted elsewhere in these columns, gives a fair presentation of the conservative point of view on educational problems which are being so much discussed at present throughout the press. There are many pleas for modifications of American systems of education to which this article is an adequate answer. No demand for greater freedom for individual thinking is worth a moment's consideration, if it ignores the necessary part a sound knowledge of facts must play in sound thinking. "No man's thinking is better than his information...
...devoted," says Professor Beale. "Their minds are filled with thought about problems of law, and by the time they graduate they have really learned to think like lawyers." Many of the School's graduates have become men high in the legal practice of the country, and the present demand, never quite filled, for its graduates, shows how it is succeeding in its purpose. Its founders and its faculty have always believed, in spite of vigorous opposition in the past, that the best preparation for legal practice is a scientific study of the principles...
...spite of the well-intentioned efforts of the New York Times, however, one suspects that militant feminists will not rush to demand the degree of Spinster of arts. The Bachelor label is of approved standing, and conveys definite significance. Without it, how could women ever be sure that they had been really educated? Even with this label, some of them must have their doubts...