Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though in the past two years the pinball machines about the Square have increased from six to 13, the future in wartime looks black to Ryan and Ruml, who claim that pin-ball repairers haven't the spare parts to keep the machines in serviceable condition for long...
Britain's major loss was expected to bring major gain to a minor man. Stouthearted, statesmanlike Sir Sikander was probably the only non-Congress Moslem important enough to challenge the claim of Mohamed Ali Jinnah to speak for all Moslems in India. In the last elections Jinnah's Moslem League won less than one-fourth of the seats officially reserved for Moslems in the Provinces; in the Sind, where Moslems are preponderant, it won not a single seat; in the North-West Frontier Province, with a population 92% Moslem, it polled less than 5% of all Moslem votes...
Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...
Their salesmanship is based upon the "you ain't doing me no favor" approach which makes the buyer itch for their bits of paper. The boys claim they are valuable...
Book & Author. It has remained for a young woman poet,* author of an earlier poem in his honor, to write the first full-length biography of Willard Gibbs. (She explains, "The world of the poet ... is the scientist's world. Their claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate each other; welcome each other; indeed embrace. As Lucretius answered Epicurus, Gibbs answers Whitman. . . .") The result is a book frequently verging on the apocalyptical in language; a Moby Dick of a book in intention and intimations, touching on "the sum of things...