Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheaper & Better? Dr. du Vigneaud does not claim that this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...
Fred Gimbel sent Macy's Straus a direct challenge. He offered to bet $25,000, $50,000 "or any amount you care to name" (with the winnings to go to charity) that Macy's could not disprove his claim to the underselling championship of Herald Square. At Macy's, where they have a policy against opening books and telling Gimbals, there were no takers...
...housing Office waiting list; this week there are 330, some of whom are merely biding their time until actual marriage or until present leases have expired. Not all of the placements made by the housing Office have been completely satisfactory; in fact, no one lays claim to entirely comfortable accommodations during postwar school going. But, by placements, by cancellations (through refusal of University-approved accommodations, or because of suitable quarters found elsewhere) and by lapse of applications, a satisfactory showing has been made on what at one time threatened to be an almost insoluable problem...
...thoroughly disgusted over the article by Mr. Paul Hutchinson [TIME, Oct. 21 ]. . . . I claim that Commandment No.1 is: Faith in people and their destiny. How dare Mr. Hutchinson condemn Europe's spiritual future. . . . We are carrying on a Holy War against Communism, and how does that prove lack of religious feeling? The reason the political parties call themselves Christian ... is that they are true Christians. The bulk of the parties is made up of conscientious religious men & women who, through Nazi persecutions, suffered for their faith. They kept on believing, and paid for their spiritual stubbornness in concentration camps...
Fearing that the scanty raiment would cause raised eyebrows in 'Cliffe bluenose circles, Eve stated that she will appear in a more seemly, if less sightly, Grecian tunic. While some male members of the production claim that the tunic idea would tax the local cloth supply, others still persist that she will actually appear in regulation Gardon of Eden greenery when the curtain rises Tuesday...