Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expense of their real job of University "housekeeping." Reynolds and Dean Bender say that administrative personnel are not equipped to give unilateral answers on undergraduate problems and that these answers in the past; have occasionally disagreed with the established policy of the Dean's Office. The result, they claim, is an increases in student-administration misunderstanding...
...there any reason to believe that in the future this regulation would be limited to the University's administrative departments. House masters, or even professors, might conceivably some day claim that undergraduate investigations were drawing them away from their real duties, and thus demand that the rule be extended to include themselves...
...ugly rumor swept Britain. It damned the royal son just born to Queen Mary and arrogant, Roman Catholic King James II as a changeling, slipped into the royal childbed in a warming pan. The rumor was later proved false, but for a while it served to bolster the claim of James's Protestant daughter Mary to a throne which she and her husband William of Orange soon conquered anyway. Spirited off to France, the traduced infant became "the Old Pretender...
...dean of Christ Church, and therefore of an Oxford College and a cathedral both, the Very Reverend John Lowe has been at Oxford for nine years, but few Oxonians would claim to know him well. He is a spare and stooped theologian, unfailingly polite to everyone-and just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax...
Jersey Standard and Socony, both signers of the famed Red Line agreement* of 1938, had persuaded their British and Dutch partners in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. to agree to waive any claim to a share in Jersey Standard-Socony's take from Aramco. But Gulbenkian, the only Red Liner who had signed the agreement as an individual, stood firm. For wangling the original concession in Iraq from the Turks in 1911, he holds a 5% interest in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. He doggedly insisted that the Red Line agreement still stood; he wanted...