Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to put in our claim as originators of a word used on p. 63 of your March 18 issue-skidoodlers-not because we want public recognition for adding a rather silly word to a language which has too many already, but for the sake of future students of the American language, who may be unaccountably interested in its evolution...
...does someone else claim to have originated it or heard of it before January...
...Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis; his young wife departs to have a baby, decides to stay for good; Carol's ill-charactered father is killed by blacks...
...could be bagged by any company with the right product and idle capacity. For three reasons Curtiss-Wright has been unable to raise capital in the usual ways: 1) its common stockholders have had no dividends on Curtiss' recent sales boom; 2) ahead of the common's claim to future dividends is Curtiss-Wright "A" stock, which is entitled to $2 a share (no more) before any dividends are declared on the common; 3) bond financing would be dangerous for a company like Curtiss-Wright, whose earnings to meet fixed charges might be suddenly cut by such unpredictables...
Died. Sir John Harry Lee Fagge, 71; in Marshfield, Mass. An English-born younger son, he made a living mowing lawns, trimming hedges, repairing furniture in Pepperell, Mass., keeping his noble birth a secret until he succeeded to the bare-cupboard baronetcy of Fagge in 1930, sailed to claim his title, met, wooed and won the English-born widow of a wealthy U. S. manufacturer...