Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parlor agitation in London, by decree of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, an appointive body chairmaned by the British Governor and containing a minority of native chiefs. The anti-slavery decree allows no compensation to onetime slave owners, gives to each freed slave the right to claim a plot of the now too plenteous waste Government land...
...that it can generate. Figuring the average man to weigh 150 Ibs., he would need at least three horsepower to pull himself through the air, and he can produce only one-tenth of a horsepower himself. Ability to magnify that puny force by aeromechanics is Captain Dibovsky's claim...
...wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth or the sixteenth century saying in all sincerity...
...Dean or otherwise; (3) the Freshman's preference, if a valid reason is given for it, and the Adviser thus chosen has not already his full quota; (4) the Freshman's expressed interest in some special subject of study in College, or his intended life work. No claim can be made that the assignment of Advisers is always the one that satisfies everyone concerned, but in the large majority of cases it is believed that the best arrangement possible has been made. As soon as the Adviser has been appointed, the Freshman is notified...
Than was Bertha, who claim'd thy heart...