Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rhyme with "through" and "prevail" with "Princeton". What we need for Princeton are songs manufactured for the purpose. There is no reason at all why the project of writing some words and music peculiarly suited to the Tiger should have to be popularized. There is talent here, and a demand--witness the numerous letters on the subject. All we need is a supply to meet the demand...
Complaints are coming from the libraries, especially now when there are examinations and the demand for books is unusually great. The cause of these complaints is found in persons who may be grouped into two classes: the book robber and the book "hog". As regards the first, when a person has the nerve to walk up to the desk and, after forging a signature to a book receipt and writing down any address that enters his head, departs, never to be seen or heard from again, it is time to take drastic action concerning him. The same may be said...
...remaining supply. Only those industries that could pay the highest wages could get labor. Farmers lost out in this competition and the supply of farm labor was greatly reduced. Domestic service suffered a similar depletion. Even the schools were robbed of some of their pupils. The unusual demand for labor also drew into industry multitudes of people, mostly women, who normally are not wage earners at all. The present situation is in part a reversal of the whole shifting process, and this is disagreeable. A properly balanced economic system in peace time requires that some of the factory workers shall...
Earlier in the year when courts were not especially in demand there was obviously no need for limiting the time a pair might hold a court. But now when someone, with only a short time to spare, gets dressed and then finds a line of hopeful players filling the alley behind the courts he is quite naturally impressed with the idea that something is wrong somewhere...
...then," the Election Committee might demand, "do not the disgruntled ones propose their own candidates, and have their names entered in the ballot, according to the charter of the class" We answer: Simply because they realize the hopeless impotence of their isolated votes as compared with the united vote of those gentlemen who know, or think they know, the popular candidates. Furthermore, they do not wish to go through the tedious process of circulating a petition and soliciting signatures...