Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divinity School will admit women as regular graduate degree candidates for the first time next fall, George H. Williams, Acting Dean of the Divinity School, announced yesterday. "An over-widening demand for women in the church" prompted the new policy, Williams said...
...railway system was supposed to pay for itself, the British Transport Commission could not raise wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing end of nationalization." A year ago Big Jim warned...
...summer days were over, the Association moved to New York, took on a Canadian member to become "International," and faced the sterner realitics of city living. A large studio on Fifteenth Street was rented, power polishing tools were purchased, and a professional wood finisher (whose services were often in demand by piano companies) was called in to deliver advanced lectures on waxes at the Association's weekly meetings. Since that enthusiastic winter the Association has become more respectable and less energetic; the studio has been moved to a sedate location uptown, and there is even a deficit from an over...
...chief topic of French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking for a home are left to grapple with les corbeaux (the ravens), the landlords...
...Pink-Whistle for seven-year-olds, can dash off a 60,000-word adventure for "over elevenses" in a week. Some of these older books are really first-rate juvenile thrillers, have achieved such a vogue in the U.S. that public libraries can scarcely keep up with the demand. But just how many volumes she has produced in all, even Enid Blyton herself cannot tell. Best estimate...