Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the completion of Holmes Hall, the college will be able to house enough resident students without using 20 Walker. This house was closed two years ago and was reopened in the fall because of an unexpectedly large incoming freshman class. If there is enough demand for Peach House as a cooperative dormitory, it will be used as one next fall...
...other demand is that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...
Whether President Truman "pressed" Congress to pass the new foreign aid bill, as the New York Times reports, or "flayed" it for its balkiness, as the Boston papers state, it is established that his speeches to Congress and the nation last Thursday night were a vigorous demand for his full program. What is more, the President was completely right in what he said, and little more remains to say on the matter...
...lost on many of his successors. Almost alone among big utilities, Detroit Edison Co. still gives away light bulbs. Partly because of this and similar consumer service policies, Detroit Edison, already the sixth biggest U.S. power company,* is growing so fast that it can scarcely keep abreast of demand. Last week, by the ice-clogged waters of the St. Clair River, it was rearing the structural steel for a new $95 million power plant, and was already blueprinting another one, equally big, named the River Rouge. Both are part of a four-year, $237 million expansion program which...
...emphasizing science at the expense of the liberal arts. Doty stated that Fine's figures represented the overall trends of the last decade, and not recent developments, because the number of science students has dropped almost one-third in the past few years. Fine failed to emphasize the tremendous demand for scientists at the present time, Doty declared...