Word: claim
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Outside India. There were many prompt to claim that Gandhi, the politician, had not only dried up his sources of world sympathy but was washed up politically as well. The blunt truth was that the Western world had always been less interested in the fate of India than in the tug of war between the British Raj and such articulate Indians as Mohandas Gandhi. Now, once the excitement of the fast was over, the West was not greatly concerned about the life or death of a shriveled little man in a loincloth...
Another big weekend looms, and many student-officers, who claim they "just haven't felt quite right since that last big exam." are planning to board the New York train at one o'clock Saturday, in order to got a good rest. Apparently the prospect of a weekend in Manhattan, compared with the hustle and bustle of the School and Boston itself, seems calm in retrospect. Jim Carty points out just how hectic things are getting to be here, when he tells us that now he can scarcely run through a second chorus in the morning before (by popular request...
...major claim to fame this season is its defeat of Pennsylvania, the first in a series of three which the Quakers experienced in as many engagements. The Cornell five also holds one of the two victories chalked up by opposing teams over Harvard on the lucky boards of the Indoor Athletic Building. Other than these facts of interest, the Cayugan cagers present very little of a problem--except that they are at home, of course...
Said Eddie Rickenbacker: "I claim that I am a real friend of labor, and that the men who are attacking me are labor's enemies. ... I definitely feel that our situation here at home is most serious, and that by such legislation [to give jobs to returning soldiers without making them join unions] our Congress could free honest labor from racketeers and parasites. ... I am not a labor hater. I believe in honest labor unions who are doing their darndest to turn out the weapons we need...
Italian-born, Salmaggi began in the U.S. as a singing teacher with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...