Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House adopted one important change when it made registration compulsory only for those employed "principally" as lobbyists. This, it was argued, would save the lobbyists of Labor, Veterans and Farmers from public embarrassment since their "legislative representatives" could claim other duties as the "principal" part of their jobs...
...competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which can be regarded as proof." The commission's chairman declared that Dr. Cook's claim was "shameless...
Vitamin A, of which he was one of the discoverers, received his specific denunciation. It does help the body of children to grow. It does help prevent eye diseases. But, said Dr. McCollum, Vitamin A does not directly prevent colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold...
Cost for the first plane, due next spring, is $500,000, for subsequent ships $250,000. By shouldering this sum jointly, the "Big Five" claim they are saving three-quarters of development expense. By creating such a fleet of supertransports, they expect to jack their passenger and express business into the black, rid themselves forever of the inconvenience of their present dependence upon Government mail subsidies...
...Foxes is more than just an animal story. Foxhunters might claim it, with some justice, as a sporting book, for it sings the glories of the chase. And Southerners could point with pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...