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Word: claim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wriston claimed that Washington is slowly drainig states' sovereignty and can't help meddling in education. He said the government has already recommended courses and textbooks, and quoted the Hoover report's claim that federal interference has weakened state education departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wriston, Conant Argue on Federal Aid to Education | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...Under the act every disappointed student could claim he was being discriminated against. To disprove such a charge, an investigating commission would conceivably have to review the applications of all the admitted students to see whether the preference given them was just...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Corporation's Counsel Hits Discrimination Law | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

...College and all graduate schools except the Business School use such allegedly discriminatory devices on their entrance applications as requests for an applicant's mother's maiden name, the birthplaces of his parents, and his photograph, the results of an investigation by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bias Charged In University Entry Policies | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...warned the West to rally before Communist aggression, Winston Churchill spoke again in what he called his "motherland." At Boston Garden, under the merciless lights required by the soth Century triumph of television, he reiterated his warnings and expressed new hope. From a vantage point no other man can claim to occupy, he reviewed the half-century on which he left his giant's imprint. He called it "this terrible soth Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: THE STATESMAN | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Faith & Finance. Mrs. Myra Kiima-lehto, sixtyish, sued for her late husband's share in what she claims he and his partner had conceived as "a business of conducting rituals, ceremonials, lessons, instructions and the sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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