Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumphant on the site he bought for $25,000 six years ago. They fanned out and staked the plains for six miles all around the "strike." Icy winds whipped down from the range but fresh goldrushers swarmed up against it by scores every hour. A blizzard swooped in, but claim pegs flew in with the snow...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...
...dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish in his motives, domineering in his tactics, and dangerous to the agricultural movement because of his attempts to control...
...Grain Co. employes. When their stores of grain were being sampled and priced for sale to the Farmers' company, they sneaked into their warehouses, in dead night, and altered samples of poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have to pay over this money, for, although they knew nothing...
...Miller, the 205-pound Crimson sprinter, is expected to be a high scorer in the dash. He has lost only one race this year and has beaten most of the men who will contest his claim tonight. He is running in top form and should take a number of first places...