Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
Entrants must be from 5 ft. 3 in. to 5 ft. 9 in. tall (with heels) and the judges claim they will be rated primarily on poise, carriage, and style. Nothing is known as to the motif of the clothes worn, but it seems doubtful that anything as drastic as the Parisian imports will he exhiluted...
Whatever the reason for this peculiar distribution, West Point officials have not shown their weekend guests much of their traditional and beloved courtesy. A visiting student certainly has a more legitimate claim to good seats than the general public. And a Harvard man ought to be just as good a $4.00 risk as the next...
...claim would have been based on a "loan" of the paper's funds to Cissy. Concluded the Washington Daily News: "If it was a loan, the . . . executives who inherited the paper . . . could properly enter a claim against the rest of the estate." Still missing were Porter's voluminous personal papers, which Countess Felicia Gizycka, Cissy's daughter, hoped to use in her fight to break her mother's will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about...
About 750 people filed into a Chicago auditorium last week to hear Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...