Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fated Lampoon is furnishing the wagon this year," quipped his colleague, "and they claim it runs on alcohol...
Reiterating his claim of last fall that "Fear of war is no basis for a national policy," President Conant in a radio address on Wednesday evening urged immediate aid for the Allies in order to insure the defeat of Hitler...
...People claim that no good swing exists in Boston. We deny this, while pointing to Jack Hill's outfit, playing at the Little Dixie over on Mass. Avenue. Despite the foolish economy of cutting the band to six pieces removing Eddie Hawley's fine bass and Bob Chestnut's trumpet work, the band still swings. High Diggs (piano) and Dave Chestnut (drums) "kick" right along while Bill Stanley's trumpet and Daniel Potter's excellent sax work are worth catching...
...last week by Lieut. Colonel Otto Hesse of the German General Staff, writing in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, to be a flamethrower which generates 2,000° Centigrade. This heat, blasted into gun ports and ventilators from 70 yards, melts gun muzzles and sears their crews' lungs. With it, claim Nazis, the Maginot Line can be "melted." -General Joffre (whose chef de cabinet was Gamelin) on Sept. 6, 1914 before the battle of the Marne: ". . . . The time for looking backward has passed; every effort must be devoted to attacking and driving back the enemy. Troops that can no longer advance...
With his law of similars, and his minuscule doses, homeopaths claim that Hahnemann anticipated the principle of vaccination. Some of his remedies, such as snake venom for control of hemorrhage, are still...