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Word: demands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the number of undergraduates at the annex has remained approximately 1000 for the last nine years, applications have quadrupled in that time. Since the quality of students has also improved he added that the college "was not privileged to ignore" their demand, but must also consider its responsibility to the number now at Radcliffe...

Author: By Christiana Morison, | Title: Jordan States Radcliffe Needs Over $10 Million | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

...Advocate stories, the reader, when finished, is hard put to attach any significance to his recent adventure. Emotionally, he does not give a damn, and intellectually he is either somnolent or at loose ends. It is perhaps not necessary that prose have a point, but it seems reasonable to demand that it achieve an effect, as Ratte does in the "Lawrison" piece. It also seems reasonable to require that in a piece about two people some coherent picture of these people should emerge...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

...indicated, however, that while he was disappointed in the current offer the union might be induced to settle short of its demand for a flat ten percent raise...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: University to Raise Its Pay Increase Plan | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

...cent raise for a general service employee, currently receiving $1.04 hourly under the old contract, would be much nearer the union's demand than a similar increase for a $1.94-an-hour second cook...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: University to Raise Its Pay Increase Plan | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

Still, Germany and the rest of the booming continent share one problem with Britain. A pressing labor shortage is curtailing industrial expansion throughout Europe, said ECE. As a result, demand is outracing supply, and prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: East v. West | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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