Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above normal. A new airline began operating from Naples to The Netherlands Indies and Australia. Passenger steamers were booked to capacity and passengers ruefully reported that prices were up 50%*. It seemed pretty clear that, if Mussolini had his way, Italy would stay out of the war and demand something from the loser-and that in the meantime she would work to grow rich...
...quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John" (roly-poly Business Manager John Weber, John Bowman's right-hand man) resign. "At the request of Chancellor Bowman," the trustees hastily appointed a committee to investigate Dr. Bowman's administration...
...land, college and university presidents, beginning the fall term last week, generally preached neutrality to their students, pleaded for academic calm. Most militantly neutral, but by no means calm, was University of Rochester's young President Alan Valentine (onetime Rhodes scholar). Dr. Valentine wired to Republican Senators a demand that the Neutrality Act be let alone, went on the radio to read to the People a letter to President Roosevelt. Cried he: "Mr. President, is it to be peace...
...cautious experimenting, discovers exactly how large a maintenance dose the patient needs to carry him comfortably through his daily life. Patients should learn, said Dr. Rutherford, "to give themselves the injections, just as diabetic patients administer their own insulin . . . [and] to adjust their own dosage as their requirements demand...
Canceling few scheduled books, British publishers pushed books on war background and looked for new ones, issued many a reprint such as Aurel Kolnai's The War Against the West. At the same time, demand grew for escapist romances...