Word: claim
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...from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position as instructor at the Harvard Research Laboratory of Physics, his life has been a tug-of-war between Boolba...
...than 300,000 casualties were the price Germany paid for the history-encrusted Crimea and its naval bases. This week, with their supply lines severed by the Red drive across the Ukraine, the Germans had lost all but a tiny, blazing corner of the peninsula. With it went their claim to full control of the Black...
...after he put down his Lockheed Lightning on his home base, Dick Bong became a major. He had also a clear claim to the title "U.S. ace of aces," which had been claimed earlier by an unwary Eighth Air Force public relations officer in England for Mustang Pilot Don S. Gentile (TIME, April 17). As Captain Gentile's score of 30 includes seven grounded aircraft, there were no cries from England when Douglas MacArthur proclaimed Dick Bong...
Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...
...Heirs. No one has ever disputed Joe Day's claim that he sold "at least a third of the Bronx" and almost as big a slice of Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. Last week one eloquent obituary estimated that if all his sales were strung end to end they would "make a strip 100 ft. wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke...