Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Morosco offers a prize of $500 for the prose dramatic composition of at least three acts adjudged by a committee of three to be the best suited for professional production. Plays submitted must be the absolute property of the author, and not subject to any copyright or other claim by or in name of a third person...
Another Great task, however, remains before man may claim complete supremacy, and yesterday's announcement by the United States Navy suggests that that too will, soon be accomplished. Secretary Daniels has told of the plans for a flight across the Pacific, to be made by a government sea-plane in the near future. If that also, is successful, we may consider that the air; like the land and water, has been made an instrument of man, and may soon expect...
...Advocate has never announced itself as the purveyor of "the best" literary work done in the University, nor does the current number give it any basis on which to make such a claim. Possibly its editors believe that what we need most is not a monthly selection of the most perfect undergraduate work; possibly they are more anxious to publish material reflecting the type of writing most undergraduates like to do and expressing the thoughts they like to think, and, very possibly, they believe this is the nearest possible approach to what seems to be the unattainable ideal...
...reason for Coxe's late appearance in the Yale line-up was a lame arm, which is now in excellent condition. His greatest claim for attention lies in his recent feat of holding the Giants to seven hits while his team-mates out-hit the big leaguers...
...undergraduate is to claim a part in contemplated reforms at Harvard, as he has a right to do, he must be absolutely sure in order to get a hearing for his views, that he has fulfilled his obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject...