Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only two men, Joe Murphy and John Bronk (the "Bronk"), a former trainer, claim to have worked the speedometer on the up-hill stationary bicycle up to fifty miles an hour, but many a bored athlete of renown has spent hours toiling along at 10 m.p.h. to limber up a stiff muscle...
Many judges have called the picture final proof of the claim that Picasso is one of the great draftsmen in modern art. While the figures in "Guernica" are neither pleasant nor anatomically correct, every line is drawn with the utmost consistency and in almost perfect detail...
Dean Miner and President Conant of Harvard believe that the nation's biggest medical problem,* decaying teeth, could be overcome if students were set to research on the cause of dental disease. At present, they claim, most of the 70,000 practicing U.S. dentists are too busy filling, polishing and pulling, to give any heed to research. Nor do they know a great deal about the tooth as an organ of the body...
...past two or three years, indeed, the situation has shown signs of becoming reversed. For although unadulterated jazz has won on its own merits many more admirers than it could claim in 1935, it has remained an esoteric secret to the average radio listener and record buyer who thrills to the superficialities of the popular dance-bands and their pretty ballads or noisy killer-dillers. Over a hundred million phonograph records are being sold this year; yet how many of them are bought and forgotten within a month...
...Rumanians under General Ion Antonescu have laid siege to the Black Sea port of Odessa. Locked within the city, whose present population is 605,000, is part of bogey-mustachioed Marshal Semion Budenny's Southern Army which retreated there after being chased out of Bessarabia last month. They claim to have killed thousands of Antonescu's Rumanians. Every now & then, they say, a placard reading "Cease Fire and Take Away Your Dead" has to be hoisted...