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Word: claimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...self-government is the ability to insure stability and to lay the foundation for an economic and cultured development that will create for the average citizen the appurtenances for a full life, the people of the Irish Free State have already during the last five years amply justified their claim to be allowed to govern themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ireland on the Make | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...claim your newsmagazine to be nonpartisan. Why then labor to insult President Coolidge (June 20, pp. 6-7)? A bit of filth flung in 1924, and you have cherished it all this time t Is this news ? And is it not proper to infer therefrom that your claim to be non-partisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...satisfied to claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Surplus | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elgin Marbles | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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