Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first meet is against North Carolina on Tuesday. The men from Chapel Hill shut out Harvard last year, 27 to 0, and still claim as their number one man Harrie Ward, winner of the North-South open tournament...
...incident last summer contradicts Mullins' claim: While I was in the office of the Herald's political columnist, his phone rang, and Mullins identified the caller as Choate. The topic of conversation appeared to be Mullins' treatment of the Robert Bradford-Sinclair Weeks split at the Republican Convention. Weeks, a perusal of old Heralds may convince you, did not come off too well in Mullins' columns in the immediate end-of-convention period. As soon as Mullins hung up he went into Choate's office, and did not return for half an hour...
Last week Pearson had the unrepaired radio, the "new" radio which he sold her son, a still unsatisfied claim for $55, and the house and lot. (He was willing to let Mrs. Phillips stay on-at $10 a week rent...
Security for Zoé? At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Châtillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...
...laboriously mined (at costs averaging $2.50 a ton), dumped into ovens and distilled, producing gas. For 80 years, scientists have been thinking of producing the gas without bothering to mine the coal. Lenin, picking up a British suggestion, wanted to try it in Russia. Since his death the Russians claim to have produced this kind of cheap power in many places...