Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to see some sweet Quinces, just drop around to the Elks this afternoon," asserted Morrissey, confident that his original club would live up to its claim to the all-flat championship of New England. The Yale Daily News...
Aristocratic Anthony Eden, with his landed gentry forebears and his Eton background, hates Business and being "businesslike," whereas strongly Middle-Class Townsman Neville Chamberlain is the embodiment of Business. The British aristocracy do not always live up to their principles, do not claim to-but they have them. It was Eton which cried out against Birmingham last week when Orator Eden brought 2,500 young Conservatives cheering to their feet with his words: "It is not by seeking to buy temporary good will that Peace is made. ... If we are to have Peace in your time, it means that...
Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
...this point in a review of Weight's latest work. "These . . . houses show Frank Lloyd Wright at the top of his powers, undoubtedly the world's greatest living architect, a man who can dance circles around any of his contemporaries," said Mr. Mumford. "Architecturally . . . the chief claim of the World's Fair on the attention of posterity will be the preposterous fact that Wright was not called in to design...
...Morrissey's Quinces," a sextet of Yale campus cops, who claim they can lick anybody, will attempt to outbowl a selection of alleymen from Berkely College here tomorrow night. Strong man in the outfit is one Jim McNulty, who boasts a 137 average. Other members of the squad are flatfoots Keegan, Ahearn, Murphy, Kelleher, and Morrissey himself...