Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coupled with the customary reservation of the three choicest sections of the theatre for regular Symphony Hall subscribers, the established practice of giving members of the faculty first claim on the six hundred tickets allotted to the University, leaves students a scant eighty-two "rush" seats for each of the year's six concerts...
...practice. After several hospital attempts at a cure failed, he wound up in helpless seclusion oh a friend's farm. His estranged wife sued the Mutual Life Insurance Co. for benefits under his disability policies. Said Judge Claude T. Reno, of the state superior court, in rejecting the claim...
...factor became clearly invalid. But the Commission's recommendation that Jewish immigration be resumed and unhampered Jewish land purchases be permitted ran into a solid wall of Arab resistance. The Arabs insisted that the Jews would soon outnumber them, control the land, and then be in a position to claim all of Palestine as their own. They backed up their argument with threats, and the British, perhaps overestimating Arab capacity to cause trouble, backed down, stating that the additional British troops necessary to carry out large scale immigration made the plan unworkable from an Empire viewpoint...
...have the feeling of "belonging" somewhere and if their escape from Europe is to be complete and final. At the same time, the Arab fear of an extensive Jewish overrunning of the Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without interfering with sovereign peoples. Through judicious planning and large scale public works, the Jewish community could fit the large majority of European Jewry...
Some of the things Stalin said were pure eyewash-such as his claim that foreign Communist Parties are not controlled by Moscow, and that certain "military-political agents" (ostensibly in the U.S.) are stirring up war rumors in order to delay demobilization (actually, the U.S. is disarming at a far more rapid rate than Russia). Some were self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning...