Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...School from which he graduated in 1845. He began practice in Boston and won a reputation in mercantile insurance and railroad litigation. He had an extended practice before the United States supreme court and in the celebrated Credit-Mobilier case, as counsel for the defendant, he successfully opposed the claim of the national government to recover millions of dollars from the Union Pacific Railroad...
Professor Macvane began with the history of the disputed territory from the time that Spain claimed Guiana. It is not international law, the lecturer said, that discovery gives claim to possession. The claims of Spain in Guiana were not repeated by other European countries since they were not backed up by actual possession. Guiana changed hands many times...
...knowledge of the subject of the boundary which the maps give. He chose sixty-eight maps out of a much larger number and classified them. There is a difference of opinion in almost all of them which were published before 1814, when the Dutch still had a claim on the territory. About sixteen of the most reliable map makers put the boundary at Cape Nassau. One of our secretaries of state has said that this is a simple matter of historical evidence, but it is not a subject on which conclusive evidence is easy to be obtained. The map evidence...
...Mott Haven team so well started on the year's training. Track athletics at Harvard have disappointed their supporters long enough. Time was, when the outcome of the annual intercollegiate games was almost a foregone conclusion; when there was no college which could fairly dispute Harvard's claim to preeminence; but of late years the old order has changed. The new one to which it gives place is far from satisfactory. Three times now in succession Harvard has been obliged to yield first place to an old rival, and last spring saw the University of Pennsylvania step into second place...
...silver certificates. Owing to the clumsiness of the silver dollar this is actually what has taken place, so that the certificates are much more numerous than the dollars. But, as this was not the expectation in 1878, the silver certificates were not made legal tender. As they constitute no claim upon the holdings of the government except for silver, the only way they effect the legal tender situation is to fill up a gap, which would otherwise be filled by gold coin...