Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholics whom you claim go to St. Mary's because we can't afford to go to a larger and better University. . . . We picked St. Mary's because we wanted to go there. . . . We like the place...
Explained Referee Donovan: "Joe Louis hit Buddy Baer at the bell-and not afterward. . . . Suppose-as some claim, but with whom I absolutely do not agree-that Louis hit Baer after the bell. In that case, it would have been a matter for my own discretion. If I thought Louis did it deliberately [which no one, not even Baer's hot-headed manager, alleged], then I would have had to disqualify...
...mass meeting of packinghouse workers which inaugurated a national drive to unionize the packers: "If the Catholic Church does not do its duty, workers may have to depend on isms." And last year the N.C.W.C.'s administrative board, which represents the whole American hierarchy, roundly stated: "The first claim of labor, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the rights to a living wage." Pius XI's admonition on the social apostolate to workers in Quadragesima Anno-"All candidates for the sacred priesthood must be adequately prepared to meet it by intense study...
...eight-page report was no all-inclusive summary of the detailed Departmental investigations, but it clearly pointed up the important issues. It could claim, too, to be representative of the student body as a whole when it called tutorial "the focal point of a liberal education," and when it warned that "in the mind of most undergraduates, Harvard would not be the same place without tutorial, in spite of its defects and its present state of flux." The same section fired a broadside at those who, to make room for immediate and useful technical training, would squeeze out the teaching...
Oilmen also hope to run a new through line from Texas and Louisiana all the way to New York. They are ready to put up $75,000,000 for the job, and claim they could finish it in six to nine months-if they can get the steel...