Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was the 200 yard free style relay. Tech was leading 31 to 28. The Crimson natators won this race by a fraction of a second, and it looked as though they had thereby taken the entire meet. But the event was awarded to the Tech mermen on the claim that one of the Crimson tankmen had "jumped the gun" mid-way in the relay, thus automatically giving the race, and the meet to the Freshman boilermakers...
...United Press listening post at San Francisco heard the Tokyo radio claim that a Japanese submarine sunk a 15,000 ton American Army transport off Manila Harbor...
Surely it is the ultimate in hypocrisy for any group, such as the defendants in the Minneapolis trial, to claim immunity to punishment on the grounds of "Free Speech" when presumably such right would be withdrawn were they in power. For if it is necessary for them to overthrow the government by force (as they apparently would like to do--else why do they advocate it?), it follows then that they and their constituents are in a minority. From this fact it is, I thin, reasonable to deduce that in order to remain in power our hypocritically successful revolutionists would...
...toured Europe triumphantly performing on the organ and clavichord, has long been relegated to a musty pigeonhole in the history of music. Musicologists credit him with having been the first organist to use the pedal independently, as a separate voice in a fugue, Sweelinck's own editors claim for him the distinction of having "founded" instrumental music, but rarely if ever is his fine body of work treated to a fresh, non-pedantic hearing...
...self-appointed spokesman for the "musical intellectuals" of the Class of '45, I am naturally indignant at Mr. Baggaley's misrepresentation of our point of view. According to Mr. Baggaley, we "charge that Tschaikowski is over sentimental, sacrificial, and entirely without claim to immortality." While we admit the first two charges as our own, we challenge Mr. Baggaley to prove that we are also responsible for the third...