Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question which springs up at such hours of stimulation regards the function of a college literary journal. Should a magazine attempt to make itself one of the powers, throwing forth discussions of curriculum or discipline, urging reformations where progress appears to demand them? Or should it confine itself to "imaginative writing", as youth may conceive that gratulatory phrase? The position in which literary journals find themselves, especially in colleges like our own, where competition presses in every field except the purely imaginative (or purely imitative, as it often turns out) compels the reformer to labor under difficulties. The literary journal...
...been previously barred out) was approved by both House and Senate and sent to the President. The provision making the Japanese exclusion clause effective July 1 (which had been altered by the joint conference to March 1, 1925, at the request of the President) was restored at the demand of the House (TIME, May 19). Thus the bill was passed. Congress. Both houses wanted the Japanese exclusion section made effective almost immediately-regardless of the President's demand that time should be given to ease the injured feelings of Japan by diplomacy. They showed their determination in this respect...
...that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those persons, now painfully numerous who read poetry aloud without indicating the metre, such variations are of no moment; to most-others they are at first sight difficult and demand for adequate reading a little preliminary study...
...only pus sling question is why no one has thought of this brilliant scheme before. An answer is suggested, however, by the nature of the resolutions adopted. Among other the Conference has decided to refuse to allow American's entry into the war to be debated and to demand that "unadulterated and undiluted American history" be taught in American schools, as opposed to the emasculated history has been introduced no generally... robbing democracy of its most precious heritage." If by undiluted history is meant a broadcasting of facts such as the smuggling operations of John Hancock, there is no occasion...
Boston. "Entire order of Liberty Magazines sold in two hours. You may want to undersupply me, but demand is so great that you better rush 20,000 more...