Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum bonum of college life, intellectual inspiration...
...first important defense witness was George E. Williams, Mr. Miller's Managing Director in 1921, who testified that he had full responsibility or the passage of the claim, that Colonel Miller had done little more than sign the necessary papers upon his (Williams') assurance that it was proper...
...Goff of West Virginia, the first witness called in defense of Mr. Daugherty, came from a sickbed to offer testimony similar to that of Mr. Williams. Senator Goff, Assistant to Attorney General Daugherty during the Harding administration, testified that Harry Daugherty not only had never been consulted on the claim, but had never offered any suggestions or even discussed the subject until 1922 when President Harding requested an "answer" to the current criticism of the transfer...
Subjects presumably discussed at the Leghorn meeting: 1) what attitude Britain will take in the event that Italy backs Spain's claim to Tangier (TIME, Aug. 23); 2) the progress of Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents did not then stop to think that I might have invested, instead, in real estate...