Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton on March 2 in the Indoor Athletic Building is the night of nights for the Harvard swimming team. A victory over the Tigers would give Coach Ulen's men a clear claim as fourth ranking team in the United States Michigan and Ohlo State, tank titans of the West, and Yale are the only colleges which would rate higher consideration...
Although Dr. Steinach was violently attacked by medical authorities ten years ago, hormone specialists today smile indulgently at the mention of his operation. They doubt his claim that four-fifths of his patients regained their virility, think suggestion was the more powerful factor. Certain it is that vasoligature does not relieve high blood pressure, angina pectoris (heart attack) or arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Although Steinach's critics admit a few outstanding cases where vitality was restored to younger men, the tissues of old men cannot be made to grow profusely, let alone pour forth hormones...
...heels of this mildly amazing claim has come a well-substantiated rumor that Jack Medica, world record-holding distance ace who is now assisting Ed Kennedy with the Columbia coaching, has asserted that 225-pound Captain John Vergeichik will defeat Eric Cutler in the 220. Whether this is a device to fool Coach Ulen into thinking that Vergeichik will definitely swim the furlong, or whether it represents what Columbians are really thinking...
HYDE PARK, N. Y.--President Roosevelt today cited statistics to support his claim that the New Deal is heading the national economy toward complete recovery and a balanced budget and challenged his opponents to prove that the country is "going bust" under his administration...
...will left the principal of the estate in trust and one quarter of the income was to be given to M. I. T., another to Harvard and the rest to charitable institutions. The will is now being contested by some of the heirs who claim that Mrs. Adams was "unsound in mind...