Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three thousand years of history will substantiate the claim that no war ever accomplished what it was intended to. The victors are the losers; they have to compromise. No system that compromises can be called a success. The last war and the one before that and the ones before that accomplished nothing...
Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair to the five out of six high-school students who never go to college. Because colleges insisted that students could not cope with college unless they had prescribed doses of mathematics and foreign languages, P. E. A. eight years ago made U. S. colleges a sporting proposition: let them admit students without these requirements and see what happened...
...vituperation, you won't have an organization long." He asked for support for the new head: "A leader, no matter how well qualified for the job, is only an individual because if you don't give him strength he is nothing." He said that those who claim the C. I. O. is dominated by Communist or Nazi philosophy lie: "And that goes for Old Lady Green down in New Orleans." But mostly his speech was emotional, fervent in its testimony of the C. I. O.'s accomplishment, the valedictory of the man who was once the most...
While R. N. hunted, survivors of the disaster reached port with considerable deflation for the German Admiralty's claim of "86,000 tons completely destroyed," and another epic of blazing courage in British seamen. Survivors told...
Under-secretary of State Adolf A. Berle '12, who until this year was the youngest student in Harvard's history, defends the claim of Barnhouse, who is several months younger than Berle was upon entering the college, to the championship...