Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wets used to claim that Prohibition was something the women put over on the boys while they were in the armed forces and unable to vote: only 20 States arranged for soldiers to vote in 1918 elections. But this year U.S. soldiers may not only vote,* they may even run for office. The War Department ruled that selectees, National Guardsmen and reservists could take part in elections, up to & including getting elected, if it does not interfere with their military duties...
Physicians, to whom morphine is familiar as the best painkiller known to medical science, and addicts, whom in the end it turns into pain-racked skeletons, found much interest in the announcement last week of a synthetic painkiller, which researchers claim is as good as morphine but safer and less habit-forming...
...week's end the fate of the Russian landing party was in doubt, but even if the German claim that it had been liquidated was true, it had done a good job. The thrust may have headed off a dangerous German advance by throwing the Nazis off stride...
...this ruinous situation most dealers blame tough local rationing boards, claim that they keep releases far below the law's legal limit. Thus when a busy New York doctor tried to swap his many-miled Studebaker for a 1942 model he was turned down flat. Reason: his old car was registered in his wife's name...
...earliest and tersest prophets, a Roman sibyl, may well claim the record for prophetic realism. Said she: "There shall be no end to war in this world. They all shall slay one another...