Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships (mostly antiques), to the five-to eight-million tons that have come into British control since war began. British ports are crowded with freighters waiting their turn-but so are Britain's shipyards crowded with tonnage under repair. For many a ship, which the Germans wrongly claim to have sunk, has had enough plates sprung by near bomb hits to make it unseaworthy. The truth of Britain's tonnage position is not all told in Admiralty admissions of sinkings, however honest, any more than it is in German claims. Last week, on the very heels...
...despite the handicaps of limited training with outmoded equipment, the 1940 Harvard model of a second lieutenant will be a capable artilleryman. The course authorities make no claim to turning out finished officers. Six weeks of summer camp plus experience on duty after graduation must take care of the details. However, it is the Department's boast that their product will be the equal of any West Point graduate as a Field Artillery expert and as commander of a gun battery...
...Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
Modestly, the Exiled Writers Committee disclaimed all but a small share in Feuchtwanger's getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...
Dionne Quintuplets. "If a highly favorable environment could do what some psychologists claim," says Dr. Newman, "these five children should be far ahead of most children of their age in mental development [but] the quints are all somewhat retarded mentally ... a disappointing mediocrity, to say the least...