Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notably, first full-fledged university to be established in North America (though Harvard and William & Mary dispute this claim), first liberal college curriculum in the American colonies, first school of medicine, first university school of business...
Meanwhile, 2,500 visiting U. S. Legionnaires were cavorting in Paris with much the same uproarious levity they loosed recently in New York. Since the French Government was paying their expenses, the fact that few of the hotels at which Legionnaires were at first lodged could claim to be even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which...
...first-rate football coaches stay in one place long enough to become an institution. Even fewer paint desert scenes in the Southwest. Robert Carl Zuppke of the University of Illinois does not claim to be a great painter though critics filled their reviews of his one-man show of landscapes last spring in Chicago's Palmer House with awed quotations from his rugged views on Art ("Art and football are very much alike"). More important to Robert Zuppke and a majority of the inhabitants of central Illinois is the fact that in the last 24 years Illinois teams have...
...foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...
Last December 8 the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided against the claim of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of Mrs. Nieman that their relation was "not of sound mind" when she made the will. Harvard's right to the money was therefore upheld for good...