Word: needing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made by a graduate society and is the outcome of the common cooperation of many individuals...
...hasten to assure prospective voyagers on the Pacific that they need not trouble themselves to take passage under a foreign flag in order to escape the drought existent here. I have been a frequent passenger aboard Dollar liners, and I have never had to forego the pleasure of my evening cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart...
...Dangerous Woman (Paramount). When Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., noticed the original title of this picture, The Woman Who Needed Killing, he called in advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him an indictment of womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with...
...picture thus presented. If the student is interested, he will probably investigate the matter further; if repelled, he can cross off one branch of business from his list and devote his attention to those which remain. As Douglas Fryer points out in his book, Vocational Self Guidance, the essential need is not for guidance but for stimulation, for thinking on the basis of accurate information. The report has stressed this point and I am in hearty agreement with its recommendation...
...This need for leisured intimacy has some bearing. I believe, on the question of the status of the director of vocational guidance. There is much discussion of the official standing of such a man and questions concerning his alliance with the faculty or with the Alumni Association are paramount. I believe that, whatever his standing, whether or not he be a member of the Faculty, he should not be surrounded by such a blaze of glory or honor that the humble fear to approach his throne or open their hearts to him. They must not be frightened by his title...