Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time came and time went, but Cerberus remainded. At length the owner arrived to claim the dog. Add one item to the H.A.A.'s budget--fifty cents for a can of Roach's flea-powder...
...words and admonitions given them by the speaker during a short space of time do not fall on reluctant ears, and are thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...
...destroy the Aland forts in 1922. It would be wise, they thought, to pay Finland to rebuild them. Seeing eye-to-eye with them was at least one big man in Finland-Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the Defense Council. Baron Mannerheim has a good claim to the title of Finland's "Grand Old Man." Now 67, he fought through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated and Kerensky took over, Mannerheim went home to Finland in disgust, just in time to pull...
...antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which in the twilight combines to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its god-like simplicity. Here is an ancient permanence that even the sea cannot claim. For the sea changes, the fields change, the heavens, the rivers, the mountains, the villages, and the people all change, yet Egdon remains. ... Egdon Health. Indestructible, immassive, the inviolate stronghold of ETERNITY ... the three o'clock bell from Memorial Chapel tower toils and the Vagabond sighs, for he realizes that...
...lured toward the altar by the combined agencies of a matrimonial society and the succulent cooking of Mrs. Wiggs. In a picture of this type, plot means little, atmosphere and sincere portrayal of character mean everything, and in these latter respects "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" may lay claim to excellence...