Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentration. A regulation that produces such terminological monsters as the Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts or Music can hardly be justified without recourse to emotionalism. More serious than this perversion is the fact that the true student of science is not distinguished from his brother whose only claim to that name is his ignorance of ancient languages...
...absurd to claim that rich men who are excused for one reason or another from a certain variety of taxes should pay them anyway, out of the goodness of their hearts, they will spend their money as they see most fit. Considering that the government is made up of politicians who are more interested in keeping people at work in the industrial system than in keeping up the educational facilities of the country, donations to the government would undoubtedly not have lessened the curtailment which Dr. Dewey has found. Obviously the fact that rich men did not pay income taxes...
...violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them to any one he pleased. Any composer, living or dead, should be proud to claim them...
...always, the professional is the foil of the amateur, and Mr. Gleason continually tries to claim responsibility for the achievements of Miss Oliver's sleuthing. Although the picture is entertaining, it will probably prove too easy for mystery-lovers who pride themselves on their ability to spot the murderer...
...counterparts. The liquidity of capital has been seriously impaired. Huge levies have been made. Stock-holders and bankers and businessmen have been scared. Recovery has been retarded. But the custom of most Americans of thinking in dollars, and not in what dollars will buy, has allowed the administration to claim all sorts of improvements in business and industry and income which would turn out to be net losses were they measured in any real standard of value. Evasion of the facts, as Democrats were quick to say in '32, is unjustifiable. And the insidious subversion of the property system...