Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy, on the other hand, need fear no immediate shortage of officer material. They claim that the Navy depends on individual action in independent units, and hence requires officers on whom greater responsibility can be placed. They therefore can and will offer their students their idea of a liberal education, with naval trappings, yet prescribing no boot training, no barracks, and giving their students freedom of extra-curricular activity, they are coming as close to a liberal education as is consistent with their own needs...
Cantabridgians, like all good Americans, co-operated nobly with the air raid authorities, but maintained their traditional freedom of speech and action. Two slightly inebriated intellectuals kept up a torrid flow of claim and counter-claim on how to best lick Hitler during the maze of signals. When last seen, they were coming dangerously close to blows on the question of who was the better American...
Certain members of the Stat School detachmen have been heard to voice objection to the statement in last week's Chaplain's column: "Rising at 5:30 o'clock in the morning, every morning, they rush into a schedule which they claim would cause physical breakdowns to men in the other groups stationed at Harvard...
Rising at 5:30 o'clock in the morning, every morning, they rush into a schedule which they claim would cause physical breakdowns to men in the other training groups stationed at Harvard. The schedule for their typical hard day's labor is the following: 5:30 Calisthenics Breakfast 8:00 Chapel 8:20 Classes 11:45 Lunch period begins 1:00 Classes 5:30 End of classes, begin supper period 7:30 Supervised study 9:30 End study, begin special consultation hour. 11:30 Lights...
...Germany day & night with full strength. And even if it is built to that strength, the proof will not be conclusive. Men on the ground in Russia and in North Africa have weakened Germany too much for air power to fly in at this late date and claim credit for victory...