Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foremost of recent criticism heaped upon the Administration is the charge of free and unlimited spending of billions of dollars disbursed to the states for relief purposes. Many impartial economic observers claim that the national credit is already stretched to the danger point and that any future huge appropriation--such as the $4,800,000,000 relief bill now before the Senate--will seriously threaten our financial stability and will impede rather than facilitate recovery...
...boordom. Last year, as one New Dealer to another, President Roosevelt sent to Premier Hepburn the old Ontario mace carried off by raiding U. S. troops (or "brigands" as Ontarians called them) in 1813. Last week this mace came near to being the only thing "Mitch" could claim has been obtained by the Province of Ontario under his Premiership...
...good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their herds they buy champion bulls which have convinced judges on some 25 show-ring points. The result is that unbiased experts no longer claim that cows registered, in herd books produce more milk than unregistered animals, that wise breeders sometimes pay more for unregistered cows than for their elite sisters. A survey in South Africa showed that when a dozen champion bulls were used for sires, they had daughters whose milk capacity averaged...
...Contrary to the popular belief, the lists as drawn up by the Masters were accepted practically intact, and the task of the Central Committee was confined largely to distributing the men who could not be cared for in the Houses for which they had expressed a special claim and those who had expressed no claim...
...Amarendra Pandey cautiously promenaded, a short black man brushed by and pricked his arm with a needle. Benayendra Nath Pandey, the stepbrother, rushed out of nowhere and vigorously rubbed the arm. In a few days Amarendra was dead of plague, and with suspicious alacrity Benayendra laid claim to his heritage...