Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years later he started his rich career in Norse scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. His first book, published in 1874, had as its thesis argument that America was not discovered Columbus. Since then he has staunchly added to claim of discovery by the Norsemen. For four years he was minister to Denmark...
Except in rare instances where a man has a special claim to a restricted scholarship, students below the scholastic rating of Group III are completely ignored in awarding this type of aid. Such an arbitrary policy suggests the posibility that certain worthy individuals who get three B's and a C instead of a B average are being overlooked in favor of brain-merchants who are not so deserving in other ways. There are two factors which seem to indicate the desirability of granting scholarships to students in Group...
Until this performance in "Desire" the Blond Venus has given the critics ample justification for their claim that she was merely a handsome woman who ran into all sorts of scrapes and took them all with the same dull look of languorous rapidity. To the mind of Josef von Sternberg, the dead pan was a panacea. But Dietrich under the new regime of Frank Bozarge is free to act, and she dispels with a flash all doubts as to whether...
...valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained the highest military order of his country but a claim to be one of those to represent Rumania at the funeral of the King of England. Also he has inspired a Fleet Street legend that will be as difficult to kill as that of the Russian Army passing through England in trains during...
...costumes rather than stiffly-starched tarlatan, interpreted music according to her own personal reaction. The great Isadora had an influence on the Russian Choreographer Michel Fokine who did most to emancipate the ballet from its rigid routine, its stiff, old-fashioned patterns. But the classical technique persists, still holds claim to first importance wherever ballet is given...