Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial group would then march to the examination hall, explain that they had slightly overslept, and demand to be admitted. Thus some of the University's present time limits on entering and leaving have more logic behind them than many students realize...
There has been a steady demand for extended hours over the years. When it was found last fall that the Faculty was considering not repeating last spring's experiment, Stephen L. Reynolds '95 formed a library committee from the Student Council to determine the need for library extensions...
Even a few commercial TV executives support the project. They cannot often present challenging programs themselves because advertisers demand that programs play to the mythical "mass market." Only educational television, which operates without advertising and uses unpaid talent, can afford to sacrifice some of its viewers by trying to make them think...
...Treasury, which likes nothing better than to sell bonds, was disturbed last week for a strange reason: it was selling too many. In towns and cities through the South and East, the demand was so great that banks were running out of savings bonds. Reason for the rush: a new person-to-person chain letter in which bonds change hands instead of money...
...builder (with his brother Fred) of the famed luxury automobiles and racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered motor (325 h.p. with supercharger, 265 h.p. without) of the celebrated Duesenberg "model J" passenger car made it a favorite with the U.S. and European quality trade, and a model from which manufacturers borrowed features since...