Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels...
...other picture, "Three Live Ghosts", is one of the best balanced productions made since the advent of the talkie. By its very nature it makes no claim to being a great artistic endeavor, but it is almost perfect as entertainment. Movie directors would be doing a real service if they would unearth more pictures of the type of "Three Live Ghosts". Like good modern novels, they are very pleasant pastimes, even though we hesitate to claim for them immortality. Unfortunately they are just as rare as good modern novels...
...sheriff's investigation revealed a medieval oligarchy in northern Arkansas. Two intermarrying, farm-owning clans on Dry and Cagin Creeks hold baronial sway over their hilly domain. With hickory whips and squirrel rifles they drive indigent, illiterate citizens to farm work at serf's wages. Claiming seigniorial "first right" to all women of the community, the clansmen had exerted their claim on the Ruminer girl, killed Franklin for defying them...
...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...