Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, no progressive, has broadcast this contribution to war aims: "Our task is ... to establish among nations the great principles of justice and freedom. ... As for the claim that in trying to establish justice and freedom we are doing God's will, it lays on us the responsibility at least of establishing these principles in our own land...
...speech to his people last December, Adolf Hitler turned to catch phrase on the Nazis' claim that gold will have no value in their world of the future. Said he: "The traffic signals are now placed as follows: gold versus labor." But last week a Manhattan lawsuit made it clear that Adolf Hitler was going through his own red lights; for men who thought gold worthless, the Nazis were going to unusual pains to lay their hands...
Experts in the obscure ways of heredity can often determine the fathers of illegitimate babies, decide whether a divorce-minded husband is the father of his wife's child, expose impostors who claim in heritances. As an index of heredity, facial resemblance is now deemed very unreliable. Eye color has scientific support but leaves too much room for reasonable judicial doubts. Fingerprints are only vaguely significant. Geneticists are fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns...
...party. Even then Joyce was suffering a good deal of pain. For ten or twelve years he had had a mysterious intestinal ailment, which did not trouble him as long as life went smoothly, caused him agony when life did not. During the last year, friends claim, Joyce "ate practically nothing...
...could take his family to Switzerland, scene of his World War I exile, birthplace of Ulysses. Thanks to influential friends (especially in the U. S. embassy), he finally procured a visa from Vichy. But the Swiss Government was fussier. At one point it refused to admit Joyce on the claim that he was a Jew. Then it demanded a $7,000 bond. The mayor of Zurich got the sum reduced to $3,500, which some Swiss friends got together. But on the day the Swiss entrance visa arrived, the French exit visa expired...