Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland House, champions of last year, showed that they have very definite designs on this year's football title when they downed Leverett 7-0 yesterday on Soldiers Field. The Beacons the league lead from the Rabbits by the victory and now claim the imposing record of four victories and one tie out of five game played...
...amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage of the bill, wily Boss Crump may well be able to best his opponent even when...
...shocks last week hit U. S. stock-markets. The first was 100% spectacular. Henceforth Tuesday. Oct. 19 can lay claim to being the most startling single day in stockmarket history since famed Oct. 29, 1929. Prices ended about where they started, but in between they went through an excursion similar to Dr. Beebe's junkets to the bottom of the sea in a bathysphere. Prices on Monday had fallen in the worst break of the current decline and everyone anticipated that opening prices Tuesday would be down as a result of widespread margin calls...
...total of 39 denominations is represented, ranging in size from one with 827 adherents to many which claim only one worshipper apiece. Among the latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...
Groups which claim not over one representative apiece include: People's Church Interdenominational), Lingnan Community Church, Lingnan, China, Mennonite, Dissenter, Evangelical Reformed, Swedenborgian, First Brethren Church, Temple Emanuel, Covenant Church, Eastern Orthodox, Sun-worshipper, St. George Church, Syrian Orthodox Church, Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, Humanism, Moravian, Plymouth Brethren, the Reformed Church, and the United School of Christianity...