Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonies for Poland? The itinerary of Yvon Delbos is Warsaw (four days), Bucharest (four days), Belgrade (three days), Prague (three days) and so back to Paris. Last week, the Polish Government greeted him in Warsaw with splendiferous display and a most ingenious demand thought up by Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. He pointed out that Poland is in part composed of former lands of the German Empire, argued that if any former Imperial colonies are restored to Hitler's Germany "it is obvious" that similar colonial territory must be "proportionately restored" to Poland! This brilliant piece of Polish...
...Thorndike's methods are dramatic, depend considerably on his ingenuity in designing tests. To determine the effect of adults' prejudices on their attitudes, he asked them how much money they would demand to eat a quarter of a pound of human flesh. To prove that heredity was more important than environment, he tested 50 twins, demonstrated that they were less affected by differences in training than ordinary brothers and sisters...
...province into which all may delve, snow immediately falls under the purview of the University. Inasmuch as there exists a general agreement that more trees must be planted, the spring problem has already been settled in its general aspects. The disposal question presents a more pressing demand both because snow is now upon the country, and because nobody has ever invented a machine or discovered a method of quickly removing the greatest natural damager of winter intercourse...
Only a decade ago Sibelius' cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular...
Because of the comparatively small demand on the scholarship funds this year the Council felt justified in taking this step...