Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson can claim many fundamental discoveries, but not the new supernova, which was first photographed with the 18-in. Schmidt telescope of the California Institute of Technology on Palomar Mountain, future site of the 200-in. telescope now under construction...
...Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied by the military...
Although his claim that he traversed more of the intercontinental land route than any of his predecessors still needs official corroboration, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. which supplied most of his gas and oil, was delighted to tender him a banquet. Obligingly, he unscrewed a light bulb from the chandelier, smashed it to bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet...
...preface to his verse tragedy Winterset, Playwright Anderson announced his abiding belief in poetry for the stage, but prophesied that it would triumph only when "an age of reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright Anderson's return to colloquial speech...
...best oblations. The Star-Wagon lacks Playwright Anderson's customary magnitude, is bathed in a questionable, tepid philosophy, bumps to a bromidic finale. Reminiscent of sundry other tinkerings with the past (Berkeley Square, Dear Brutus, Merrily We Roll Along, If, One Sunday Afternoon, et al.), it has slight claim to originality...