Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a Rock. With the air of a man peering underneath a lifted rock, he told what he had discovered at Moscow. He recalled how, at Potsdam, Britain and the U.S. had allowed the Soviet Union's claim to millions of dollars' worth of German factories-on the contention that this was the way to keep the peace...
...most talkative non-Arab delegate was India's florid Asaf Ali. "When we talk about Jews," he said, "what Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when they want...
...hold-the-line policy (TIME, March 3), which the Communist Party (and its five Cabinet ministers) had approved. To deal with the situation, beetle-browed Benoit Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years). Benoit Frachon issued instructions: "We have a small wildcat strike chez Renault. Get down there...
...Existentialism" is more than the name of a jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
...University, Memorial Hall included. Founded in 1808 by students anxious to improve their instrumental skills, the Sodality (Latin for fellowship) was at first more a social congregation than a note-following gathering. Yet their early addiction to mellow spirits rather than spirited melodies in no way obviates their claim to being "the oldest musical organization in America"-as well as Boston...