Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news spread, one Jorge Blau wrote from Bolivia's northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...
...Mike Benedum prowled the world in search of oil, losing fortunes in Peru and China, but making bigger ones on major strikes in Mexico, Colombia, Rumania. His most spectacular achievement was the discovery of the great Yates pool in Texas, in 1926. It prompted his claim that "Joe and I have unloosed more oil than anyone else." In unloosing it Benedum piled up a fortune estimated at over $80,000,000. The new strike, big as it was, proved only that a wildcatter could never quit...
...This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
...Tremblant three hours south to Montreal offers many closely connected resorts like Saint Marguerite, with a T-bar lift and the luxurious Chalet Cochaud, Saint Adole, and Saint Adole both with rope tows. None have the extensiveness of facilities or size of hills that many New England resorts possess, claim Americans...
...most daring and presumptuous thing about Wolf was his ambition to pour all of American experience through the filter of his own consciousness. All his novels are intensely autobiographical, self-centered as no other American writer has dared to be. And yet Wolfe claimed for them a universal relevance that no other American writer dared to claim...