Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrilled W.W.C.: "Such is the logic of the imperialist that he regards as nationally ethical that 'what is mine is mine and what is thine is mine.' Vandenberg's . . . unbridled covetousness lays claim to the entire world. . . . The avowed imperialist assumes that if not his belly, at least his pocket will have the requisite capaciousness...
...providing for a permanent five-man commission to decide cases of individuals who claim to have been unjustly discharged or denied jobs, was enthusiastically backed by the state's churchmen, the C.I.O., A.F. of L. and a host of other organizations. Said Governor Dewey: "Passage of the bill ... is an historic step. I am happy indeed that our state has led the nation...
...toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...
Iowa basketball fans had two large evenings last week: first Iowa State (won 11, lost 5) breezed by Kansas, 61-to-39, and won the Big Six Conference championship; then Iowa University (17-1) took Illinois, 43-to-37, to pocket the Big Ten title and stake a claim to being the best in the land...
...many people," observed Gertrude Stein's U.S. publisher, Bennett Cerf, in his best-selling Try and Stop Me, "even claim to understand the intricacies of Miss Stein's prose style. But millions admire her rugged and magnificent personality." Pennsylvania-born Gertrude Stein has now lived out one world war and most of a second in her adopted France, viewed many another war from afar in the course of her 71 years. Wars I Have Seen, which she claims that even Publisher Cerf should be able to understand, is mostly about the present war. It is, naturally, very different...