Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large enough to influence the body politic and an array of social securities to warm the hearts of Socialists. De Gaulle holds that these things are demanded by the vocal underground. In Algiers today there are enough chosen delegates from resistance groups in France to give validity to his claim...
...Electrical sleep, an improvement on electric shock therapy for the insane, has been developed by a group of California doctors. A treatment lasts seven minutes. The doctors claim that their method is as effective as insulin shock against schizophrenia...
...Allied airmen this confusion, plus the size of even the smaller claim, underlined the old puzzle of how the Luftwaffe manufactures its aces. Does it falsify the scores? Does it include planes destroyed on the ground? Does it employ tactics saving the sure "kill" for the top officers of the squadrons? Of one thing airmen were certain: very few men anywhere could stand the nervous strain of enough air battles for a bag of 177 or even 116 enemy craft...
...Steinach, 83, Viennese sex "rejuvenator," in Territet, Switzer land. After changing the sex of guinea pigs by transplantation of their sex glands, handsome Dr. Steinach went on to the problem of staving off old age, devised the "Steinach vasoligature" for stimulating the flow of hormones, called it reactivation. The claim that the method "re juvenated" failing men got thousands "Steinached" during the '205, was roundly denounced in medical circles. Thrice reactivated himself, vigorous Dr. Steinach wrote his last book (Sex and Life) in 1940, two years after the Nazis found him guilty of having had a Jewish grand father...
...refugee without an adequate laboratory, Ehrenhaft has again challenged a basic concept. When an electric current passes through acidified water between iron poles, the current decomposes the water and oxygen is formed at the positive pole. It is Ehrenhaft's claim that when the two poles of a horseshoe magnet are substituted for the current, oxygen is present in the gas that rises from the north magnetic pole. Therefore, he reasoned, the water is decomposed and there must be a flow of magnetic current...