Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctrine goes this way: Because overbuying is a commercial disgrace, Coop buyers order conservatively and then reorder on demand. Enhancing their reputation for financial sagacity, this practice hurts only students. But after all, they are only the theoretical owners of the Coop...
...actually, repeated experience has shown the Coop's fears as largely groundless. Especially in the larger courses, the demand tramples the supply, and students yearly mark academic time while new books wend their way Cambridge-wards...
...seem to fail to recognize that the best education is not necessarily the most expensive. Even if this is a disputable proposition, our circumstances demand that we set ourselves to trying to prove to the world that it is true. Instead, we seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could...
Rapture of the Depths. Cousteau perfected his seagoing lung in 1945. The key to its operation is an automatic compensating valve that adjusts the air supply to the diver's demand and the water pressure. The outfit weighs about 45 lbs. above water; submerged, the man and the machine when properly ballasted weigh hardly a pound...
This is what nazism and communism demand, and what our won a increasingly collectivized society seems to demand in increasing measure too. However, it is not only totalitarian but indecent, if the judgment of society becomes the standard by which an individual is judged also by those with whom he is connected not socially but personally, and by more intimate bonds than those of citizenship. For the fact that someone is a law defying. citizen does not mean that he could therefore not at the same time be the best of fathers, the most perfect of gentlemen, or the most...