Word: claime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...definite ideal of social progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
...Those who actually do the work of conservation have, therefore, a peculiar claim upon us. While I was President, there were no two men to whom I felt I owed more, from the standpoint of the public service, than Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot, for the work they did in connection with conservation...
...Panama Canal. Now, our own people have largely been ignorant of the really wonderful work that has been done on that canal. No man in our history, save only some of the men engaged in the great wars which founded and perpetuated this nation, has such a claim on the gratitude of the nation as those who have done such efficient work on the Panama Canal. That work represents one of our greatest national assets, one of the greatest feats to be credited to our nation throughout our entire history. Enormous sums of money have been spent, and yet there...
...advantage of it. The court would, in actual fact, never have come into existence, its memory would have vanished if it had not been for John Hay, who, as Secretary of State, succeeded in getting Mexico and the United States to submit to the judgment of the court a claim involving the two nations. It was this act of John Hay's which literally saved the court, because it put the machinery in motion and if this step had not been taken mere disuse would have caused the court to vanish out of existence in a very short space...
...delay by ten days or two weeks the organization of the Council. As it is, several problems of importance await its consideration. Although the revised constitution was presented entire only yesterday morning, its very point had been brought up for discussion four days previously. In consideration of this, the claim of too hasty ratification vanishes completely...