Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg in a disgraceful parody of justice, a Nobel prize winner, etc., etc. The only respect a citizen of the U.S.A. may claim from the world would be the respect of fear, because of his country's might...
Mississippi voters had chosen him as their U.S. Senator-three times in twelve years they had chosen him. Last week he arrived in Washington to claim the seat to which he was entitled by the vote of the sovereign state of Mississippi...
...Students Claim Belongings...
...should not merely attend national fame or political prominence. Presumably, the University hopes that its prestige will be extended primarily by the men it sends out into the world with its regular degrees. Special honors should be reserved for those who exemplify its ideals; whom it wishes it could claim for its own but cannot unless it be through the device of the honorary degree...
What Is "Fair"? Nathan's sweeping "projections" did not consider industry's condition in detail. There are 420,000 U.S. corporations, and not even Nathan would claim that all of them showed a profit. But his report was enough to make them all targets of labor's new drive. C.I.O. leaders denied this, but the report was hardly out when the U.A.W.'s peppery redhead, Walter Reuther, announced a drive for a 23½?-an-hour wage rise in the automotive industry...