Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one way of establishing a valid claim to supremacy exists-victory at the Poughkeepsie regattas. Over the years the race on the Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest...
...office has-he sends out some 300 letters and bills a month-heard what Mrs. Groene wegen was up to. On his mail is a picture of the post office and the legend: "Oldest U.S. Post Office Building." Mr. Jennings was indignant. Said he: "This building ... is our only claim to fame. It means a lot, too, to stamp collectors who want the Ralston postmark in their albums." Mr. Jennings wrote to New Jersey's Senator W. Warren Barbour, asked him to take a stand...
...unwarrantable interference. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom; its constitutional position has been clearly defined and established by statute. Therefore, all matters connected with Northern Ireland are completely outside the jurisdiction of the Eire Government. . . . On behalf of the Government of Northern Ireland I repudiate the claim of Mr. de Valera to speak in the name of the people of this area...
...asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people, since without question of or vote on an issue no estimate of public opinion could be made...
...which white musicians have only imitated and polished, started out with not two, but three strikes against him in his fight to gain an equal footing with the white man here as in every other field in which he has tried to make headway. There is every reason to claim that jazz is the Negro's own artistic achievement. In every form of artistic expression there is an occasional Langston Hughes or Paul Robeson or Richard Wright, but in jazz the Negro comes into his own in a medium he himself invented and developed...