Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least of all the dining hall officials should look wide eyed or askance at this proposal, or feel the stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables...
When Mr. Hogan began his rebuttal, he was promptly shut off by Justice Wheat's announcement that he had heard enough. Continued the Justice: "I would be the last one in the world to claim any right to interfere with the powers of the Senate or with the exercise of its legitimate discretion. Where it has discretion, I have nothing else to say about it, nor has any other judge. . . . Feeling as I do, that this subpoena goes way beyond any legitimate exercise of the right of subpoena duces tecum, I think that I am bound to grant...
...Edward had been in a mood to do was to read the obligations shouldered by His Majesty's Government when they signed and Britain's Parliament ratified the Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British thinking machines in motion was greatly assisted by Belgian...
...Morristown for the year past, a ruddy-faced, 32-year-old Union Theological Seminary graduate named Richard A. Morford has been acting pastor of First Presbyterian Church, whose members proudly claim that George Washington once worshipped there. Presbyterian Morford went to First Church in 1931 as Minister of Christian Education, made himself popular with the young people. He made no bones of the fact that he is a Socialist. Year ago he helped bring Norman Thomas to Morristown, introduced that amiable onetime Presbyterian minister and Presidential candidate to his listeners. Abruptly last week Socialist Morford announced his resignation, declined...
...Chaldean Empire's capital. When Wise Men Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar - Chaldeans all - returned from their expedition to Bethlehem, they became, according to tradition, the first group to spread the Gospel. The tongue in which the Chaldean Rite is still conducted is Chaldeo-Aramaic, which its adherents claim Christ spoke. One of the chief differences between the Chaldean Rite and the Latin Rite is that Chaldeans baptize by immersion...