Word: claim
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Names alone, however, are not sufficient to build a tradition, and HDC's real claim to fame comes from its unusual selection of plays. Always the first United States showing, the annual productions have occasionally been world premiers as well. Bernard Shaw's next piece on the slate, "In Good King Charles' Golden Days," has been given in England only once before...
...source of news, A.P. insists that "the source of news lies in the event itself. Access to the source of news is open to all who are willing to expend time, effort and money. News is, therefore, a product which . . "belongs to the producer." In short, A.P. sensibly claims that news events cannot be monopolized. This view does not grapple with the charge, which is that the means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available to every one . . . the incentive...
From John Croger comes this quotable quote, "One sure way of coming home from Narraghnsett with 50 is to go up there with 100." Bob Frank and Bill Brown claim it's all on account of three men on a horse is just too much weight for any nag. Furthermore, we understand they had to rent the track for the weekend, having missed the last milk-train to Boston...
...Witnesses take their name from the twelfth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Their leader, the late "Judge" Joseph Rutherford, taught that they "must be witnesses to Jehovah by declaring His name and His kingdom under Jesus Christ." They claim half a million followers in the U.S., several million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard...
...greatest loss that Stoughtonites incurred in moving to Weld seems to be the luxury of an on-the-spot coke dispenser. Now the poor lads have to walk all the way across the Yard to Hollis--a distance that certain experts claim is practically the same as the span between Weld and McBride's. and much less interesting...