Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Tom Bridge, Rush Overholt, and Mac Broderick, three more veterans, have first claim on defense positions, but they have a fight on their hands to keep from giving way to Don Page and Ed Dav s, two' big and talented Freshmen...
...marking system used by the Times came in for plenty of blasting in the Crimson columns, which claim that it is rife with subjectivity. "Only 15 per cent of those taking the test knew that the Times thought that America's policy toward China was "Open Door" although Fine (the man who ran the show for the Times) says that "Friendliness" would have been acceptable. Anyone who went beyond that catchword was ridiculed," the student editors commented...
...battle while withholding facts which might comfort the enemy, few generals find it easy to state the bitter, unqualified truth in communiqué or other public utterance. One of the frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...
...wide world, celebrating Bears, with the strains of Hail, California in memory, could take great satisfaction in what Californians dearly love to call the world's largest university. They can make a good case for the claim...
...Hervey Allen has done, he says, "more writing than almost any American." Behind him are eight books of poems, five of prose. Toward the Flame is considered one of the best U.S. personal records of World War I (of which Allen is a wounded veteran). In biography his greatest claim to scholarly fame is Israfel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1934), a searching study of the life and times of Edgar Allan...