Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's claim that an amendment would take too long, asked the Dean, what about calling State conventions such as ratified the 21st (Repeal) Amendment in less than ten months? Better yet, he demanded, why could Congress not set a national date for elections to the conventions, a national date for the conventions themselves, thus get the whole business over with in less time than it would probably take to get .the President's bill through Congress...
...Anderson planted three cocoanut palms there and the U. S. Geographical Survey finally put it on charts, but not until transoceanic aviation suddenly zoomed into commercial and military importance in 1935 did the U. S. formally claim jurisdiction over Kingman Reef. Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect...
...That which will at times appear to you, either by example or by precedent, as the end of the rainbow will be a carnation in your lapel and the comfortable club life of your city. . . . Your profession has no particular claim to distinction in this respect. . . . Our educational system has been too virile in production of men immunized from a sense of feeling of social responsibility; trained in the art of plunder in gentlemanly ways; imbued with the false ideal that the American way means exploitation...
...simply that the Church is against Communism, the theory of which scholarly Pius XI deftly synthesized in four sentences: "The doctrine of Communism was founded on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoreticians of Bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation. According to this doctrine, there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, animal...
Professors claim that when examinations students are the most interesting people in the world, for their and attitudes range from to joy--though seldom, latter. One professor, Wisconsin's J. Salter, minicammed his students during recent test...