Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week part of the claim had been knocked out under a Canadian law that mining rights cannot be established to property occupied by dwellings. But Lawyer Stirrett was undismayed. He appealed the decision. He also said slyly...
...However, I understand that my client [and another prospector who helped Gallant] are offering these 320 acres for sale. They want $10,000 a claim, or $80,000 all told. They are putting up a property-for-sale sign to advertise...
...sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark: "Steam power is business; hydro power is politics...
...Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...
...arising from our fair school against a certain much-abused gentleman by the name of Peter I. Tschaikowsky. Indeed this tirade appears to be quite general throughout the country among the self-styled musical intellectuals. These gentlemen charge that Tschaikowsy's music is over-sentimental, superficial, and entirely without claim to immortality...