Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University tennis team finished third in the intercollegiate indoor tennis tournament which took place in Ithaca. N. Y. last Friday and Saturday, and thereby lost its claim to the indoor tennis crown which it won last year...
...game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have...
...committee went on to say that by no means would they oppose a new chapel if the University was in real need of one. But, they claim, the University is in no need of a new chapel, and that a new chapel "would not be a lasting, artistic, inspiring, and suitable war memorial." In this attitude they believe they are supported by a majority of the alumni body...
Such is the claim of the "liberals" but as is a frequent fault with reformers, they fail to consider that while they are busy making plans for a better world, the majority of mankind must meantime carry on the everyday affairs of life. It is inevitable that they settle into a more or less permanent and conservative mold, on which it would be exceedingly difficult for liberal crusaders to make much impression. And if the liberally educated youth cannot retain his liberalism in hostile surroundings, it is as least as much the fault of his instruction as of the environment...
...little disillusioning it is, after all these months, to find that Mr. Sterling was he, too much like meeting an author. One was confident in the honesty of Mr. Foley's claim to the honors of creation. Sterling, Sterling. Well, Sterling...