Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all for the Finns, the Russians were destroying men and material as fast as the Finns could get them from abroad. Against the 10,000 volunteers who have joined the Finns, at least 17,000 Finns have been killed in the battle of Viipuri. The Russians claim to have shot down 191 airplanes since Feb. 11th. This was 41 more than the entire Finnish Air Force at the beginning of the war. And that drive has netted the Russians a great store of small arms. As if to counteract these losses the Finns last week routed the 34th...
...cakes, apples, eggs, butter, meat and lumber for Germany are systematically broken open and plundered while crossing Soviet territory. The Germans have to send German freight cars, though they need them badly at home, because if they send cars they captured from the Poles the Russians seize these and claim they captured them. Investigator Kovacs added that the Nazis dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they get oil from Rumania by a roundabout rail route through Hungary or up the Danube, now frozen. He was told that...
Last year the rugby team was undefeated and had a strong claim on mythical national championship honors, disputed only by the Chicago rugby club. The Crimson squad hopes to arrange a meeting with the Windy City outfit this spring to settle national supremacy and it seems likely that the match will be arranged. The Chicago squad has two great individual stars in Jay Berwanger and Clint Frank on the roster...
...first sight it would seem that the team has been vitally weakened. Actually it hasn't been weakened particularly, because in a multiple meet of the sort that Easterns are, the strongest teams are the teams with the greatest number of individual standouts. The Crimson can claim four. It could claim five if it were not for the fact that Jim Redmon has a trick shoulder...
...seems likely that these are to be their only satisfactions, for not only does Yale lay claim to stars of the calibre of Howle Johnson, all-around free-styler, and Jim Cook, outstanding diver, but in some events the Elis can produce stars two or three deep. Harvard's breastrokers have not, up to now, been able to surpass 2:32 even in practice, yet Yale has Meyer, Gesner, and Metcalfe who are below that mark. Her divers, Cook and Munding, are consistently scoring well above George Dana's all-time best point total...