Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore relieve further congestion at Cambridge and Charles Sts. This new drive along the Boston side which is thus seen to be of primary importance for traffic to Cambridge and towns to the north and west of Cambridge, is the feature most opposed by Beacon St. organizations who claim that the drive would ruin the park. The answer to this objection is that no horns would be blown because there would be no cross streets and no pedestrians, and that motor cars on a smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians...
...glory that was won by the victorious college has been in several instances distorted into an assumption of definite educational supremacy. The justification of this claim would hardly rest upon the results of such a test of strength. For no sense of educational value could be more false than that which would judge the relative merits of two colleges or their corresponding departments upon the comparative standards attained by ten representatives in a single field, however general. Such judgement might further lead to an unbalanced emphasis upon the importance of examinations as criteria of educational achievement...
Playing on the home Arena, the powerful Eli skating combination is the marked odds-on-favorite to repeat its victory of last Saturday and clinch the series. A Yale victory will definitely give the New Haven six sole claim to the mythical intercollegiate hockey title and with it the first Crimson-Blue championship since 1925, when the great Jenkins-led team from Connecticut proved its supremacy over the University in a climactic string of contests...
...Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading department, presumably modeled along the lines of the New York Produce Exchange...
...Review has the acknowledgeed reputation of being one of the leading law periodicals in the world. It can also claim the distinction of being the oldest student legal publication, for it was founded in 1887 by a small group of men who had previously been associated as a club...