Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other features of the expedition which more than redeemed the day, the pickers claim, were the large amount of cider provided by the farmer, the length of the lunch hour, and the minimum of work required the rest of the afternoon...
...Jinnah, Moslem League president, played the British against the Hindu-dominated Congress party to gain power for himself and his vague plan of a separate Moslem state. The British pointed to Jinnah's intransigence as an example of clashing Hindu-Moslem aspirations. It gave point to the British claim that Indian nationalists must unite before independence (preferably dominionhood within the Empire) will be granted. But efforts to promote a national wartime government were balked by the British Raj's refusal to allow any dealings with the jailed Gandhi...
Under Argentine law a President is ineligible to succeed himself. But Argentines suspect that because Castillo came to office through a vacancy and not by a vote (TIME, July 6) he will claim the right to stand for election in 1943. It would be a neat trick and, the way ballots are counted in Argentina, it might work...
...again. But influenced by the bacterial sugar, the folding molecules assumed a modified structure in the flask, just as they would in the blood stream. Thus they became antibodies. Several tests showed that the artificial pneumonia antibodies were strikingly like natural antibodies, but the researchers do not yet claim that they are as potent...
...that, although the corporation was authorized by law in June, it did not get a head (Kansas City Little Businessman Lou Holland) until July, a headquarters (the Raleigh Hotel) until August, or an administrative order permitting it to employ a staff until September. Nonetheless the same trade sources that claim that 45,000 small manufacturers are fully equipped to handle war contracts they cannot land, also believe that not more than 15,000 will ever be able to get into war production because of materials and labor shortage...