Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continual feebleness of its attempts to lay groundwork for the housing future. When February rolls around and rooms in and out of the Houses empty, a semblance of standardized priority rating should confront the applicant. The Student Council-AVC housing committee-which by the College's own claim did yeoman work in investigating commuter hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those in authority can not afford to lean complacently...
Star sapphires, which have a brilliant, six-pointed star, are more difficult to imitate. Their "asterism" comes from minute particles of some foreign matter (some authorities claim that it is empty space) arranged symmetrically throughout the crystal structure. These form a slight cloudiness (jewelers call it "silk") which reflects light in the shape of a star...
...Henry A. Wallace, former Vice-President, Cabinet member, and Presidential confidant, steps to the rostrum in Soldiers Field tonight, he will be speaking as a private citizen. It is a striking tribute to the vitality and appeal of his ideology that, although he has no official standing and no claim to prominence other than as a member of the Fourth Estate, he is able to attract large and enthusiastic audiences wherever he speaks, and has become the symbol of all that is distasteful to Russophobes, isolationists, the Un-American Activities Committee, and the Old Guard of both parties...
...issue of his fortnightly journal, Christianity and Crisis. Many a Christian will agree that: "If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice in the stern, three-point scolding Niebuhr administers to both sides. Excerpts...
...Smith Hopkins, 74, retired professor at the University of Illinois, rose to defend his priority on No. 61. In 1926, he insisted, he had found the element by observing its spectrum. Other experts testified that he must have made a mistake. Chief count against Dr. Hopkins' claim: Element 61 is so short-lived that it could hardly have existed in nature...