Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania held a primary and though no candidate had filed his name, the voters wrote Candidate Hoover's name on the ballots in such numbers as to justify the Hooverites' claim to all 79 Pennsylvania delegates...
Timely writing is seldom scholarly writing, and indeed these books lay no claim to the latter title. Written, one by the political authority of the eminent Baltimore Sun, the other by a Princeton professor, both books will be chiefly of lay interest. Both authors are well-informed, authoritive, and unbiased. Scholars will detect occasional minor flaws, but will be impressed with the shrewdness of interpretations given to party platforms, campaign pledges, election results...
...other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having the same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether the twins were together or apart. Others claim the mental disease to be the result of environment and association; insist at least that identical twins would not go simultaneously mad or have the same type of insanity if they had not been brought up together. This, in extreme form, is the field of the present investigation...
Gdal Saleski is himself a cellist, now with the New York Symphony. Press notices quoted in his own biography name him an artist of "graceful style which he is able to suit to many different moods." Writer Saleski can make no such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative...
When Sarwat fell, the majority party (Nationalist or Wafd) once more set up the rightful majority claim of its leader, Nahass Pasha, to be called to the Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last week, only after the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, had convinced himself that force would be needed to impose another puppet Prime Minister upon Egypt and that for the moment force is inopportune...