Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME based its statement on Sports Promoter Adams' frequent claim that he is an eighth cousin of the onetime Secretary of the Navy. Although the latter has never publicly denied the claim, his Cousin John Adams last week said: "I could name all the living members of various branches and Charles F. Adams absolutely is not of our family. I can assure you most definitely of that...
...Lowell has expressed simply a feeling that sooner or later comes to all of us in these four years; in addition, he has hinted indirectly at a tendency of many to conclude that the more facts one amasses the less one actually knows about life. Cynics often claim that the only advantage of a college education is to unload the mind of the prejudices and ideals bred in the family bosom. Henry Adams was rather more gentle in saying that if it did nothing else, Harvard College left the mind...free from bias...docile...
More volumes than are found in any university library in the world are to be found in the Harvard University Library. The only institutions which may claim numerical superiority over the 3,000,000 volumes deposited on its shelves are the British Museum, the Paris Bibliothetique, the Congressional Library, and the New York Public Library...
...announced the decision to have the panel removed, which, of course, amounts to destruction. I do not consider this affair a personal matter and I will do everything within my power to fight for the public's right to be protected from the censorship of a few individuals who claim that "the infantile mentality of the American people" should be preserved at any cost...
...really awkward matter was how to dress up China's current economic and political situation so as to appeal favorably to Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Before leaving Nanking unctuous Dr. Kung made the sweeping claim that he has "freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo...