Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British last week. Said G. L. Mehta, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry: "In India, the program of defense, civil or military, is not broadly based on popular will. The demand for application to India of principles for whose vindication the United Nations claim to be waging this war . . . has remained unheeded...
...said that the front was stabilized after "undeserved" reverses, and actually understated the Wehrmacht's recent resurgence in Russia (see p. 75). He said that the R.A.F. had made Germany a "war zone"; the people knew it, could see it in their blasted cities. He made the fantastic claim that Germany had lost only 542,000 dead in World War II; by a conservative Allied estimate, the Germans have lost four million men killed, captured and permanently disabled in this war, and the majority of these in Russia...
...Sodality can also claim more orderly achievements. Its prolonged agitation for a chair of music at Harvard was instrumental in founding the University's music department. The Sodality begot the Harvard Glee Club. In 1837 a group of its graduate members formed the Harvard Musical Association, which gave Boston its first regular symphony concerts, and gave Major Henry Lee Higginson the idea of founding the Boston Symphony...
Besides Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, last Friday afternoon and Saturday evening Symphony Hall boasted of a narrator, a guest conductor, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard Glee Club with tow soloists. The equally impressive program consisting of four works could lay claim to one world and two Boston premier performances. Yet, out of all the novelty and excitement emerged a concert which will rank with the foremost of the current season...
...boys in Holworthy-M claim "the best news of all comes from Purity Hall" . . . Platoon 8 wants to know where was Wallace all Week...