Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors-expert anthropologists-after laboriously measuring and tabulating the legs and calves of Smith girls, solemnly announce that the calves are "considerably larger than those of Jamaican women!" This is due, they claim, to athletic exercises. Remarkable scientific discovery...
...sudden be cut off. A referendum has been introduced which . . . seeks to create an appearance that Germany could now force her wishes and demands on the victors in the World War. . . . "The entire referendum is based on transparent dishonesty. It is based on the wild claim that previous German foreign policy has rested on the recognition of Germany's War Guilt. . . . "The German people have now to choose between sense and nonsense. . . . Whoever subscribes to this referendum promotes the disintegration and enslavement of the German people." Foreign editors reading this declaration looked hard at the 72 signatures, compared them...
From extra fares, U. S. railroads derive an additional revenue of approximately $10,000,000 per year. Their stout claim, supported by heavy advance sale of "limited" tickets, is that the traveling public gladly pays the extra fare in return for superior accommodations, extra speed. Some famed limited trains, their routes, their times, their extra fares: New York Central. 20th Century Limited (and three similar trains), New York & Chicago in 20 hr.-$9.60. Southwestern Limited, New York & St. Louis...
...stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes are set at $5,000,000 or $7,000,000, or $10,000,000, knowing friends claim he is not the decline-causing bear of Manhattan gossip, but a shrewd trader who follows trends. Married, Bear Danforth has three children and a Bellanca airplane used chiefly for trips between his Cape Cod estate and his Brookline home, said to contain the most luxurious bedroom in Boston. While prime Danforth...
...ridiculous, of course, to claim that being a newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...