Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statute was intended originally for the protection of youthful morals and that "to talk about the morals of grown-ups is to tread on dangerous ground," Judge Adlow added, "When we come to books in which an occasional passage may be found to be suggestive, or even as some claim, indecent, the question becomes. 'Will the young boy or girl who might ordinarily be interested bother reading 300 pages in order to enjoy the questionable pleasure which a half or a whole page of suggestive narration may afford...
Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself The Shape, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission...
...midst of war, the U.S. people took time out to elect a President. Franklin Roosevelt's claim as Man of the Year was mainly that he won a fourth term. But the President had already broken the precedent with his third term. And this time he won through by the narrowest margin of any election since...
...another anecdote told about him. Sipping a glass of brandy one day aboard his private railroad car, he observed that he had drunk a "really formidable amount of brandy in my life . . . enough to fill a car as big as this-probably two or three this size." When this claim was challenged, he put one of his economists to work on the problem, learned from the statistics that he had consumed only about a fourth of a carful of brandy. Said the Prime Minister: "For a man of my years, it is a bit disappointing...
People like Dickens' Mrs. Gummidge, who claim they "feel more than other people do," will have a chance to prove it in the future. For Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan...