Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congratulations were showered on Nicholson. Churchill turned ashen pale. His cigar dropped from his mouth and rolled unnoticed to the floor. His wife buried her face in her hands. "Demand a recount," whispered Churchill's campaign manager. "I demand a recount !" cried "Winnie." The result was the same...
...refinement of political cruelty could demand no greater punishment than that given the ambitious, patriotic Churchill, who tried to be his own master in British politics, for it is conceded that Duckers' 291 votes were votes filched from "Winnie's" campaign and would easily have carried him to Parliament...
Dean Briggs problems were not-simplified by a resolution of the faculty calling for a curtailment of athletic contests. An unsuccessful football season which began with the brightest prospects brought a demand for a definite policy in football, and led to the appointment of an advisory committee and the selection of Haughton as head coach with results which are well known During this first year there was considerable agitation in regard to summer baseball Dartmouth had cleaned house drastically with the result that its baseball team was seriously crippled. When a request came, therefore, for the Harvard baseball team...
...matter of fact, all the Office requires is a grade. It is only the nature of the course, or the laziness of the instructor that makes this grade depend on one short test. Certainly it is not the best interests of education that demand...
Mayor Curley maintains that discriminating Boston audiences expect something better than licentiousness on the stage: if this is so, and they are willing to demand what they wish, the Mayor has hardly been consistent in depriving them, as he has, of the opportunity to exercise this very power of discrimination; and if his original statement is exaggerated, and Boston is really, as the atrical managers assert, a "leg-show town", it seems quite useless to attempt a reformation of character by such superficial means...