Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretch of the imagination be called a popular movement, and that its members are for the most part wheels and friends of wheels in the organizations initiating the move, namely, the H.L.U., and AVC, and the Crimson. It is conceivable that these men represent these organizations, but to claim that they are the popularly-chosen voices of a thoroughly aroused student body is certainly a travesty of the truth...
Boston's own Faneuil Hall, where last spring a mob of 500 raging, stomping veterans asserted their claim to an extra $900 windfall, was the scene of one of the earliest and most vociferous bonus rallies. Since then the question of bonuses has been an issue in almost every state or national veterans' organization. Happily, there has been no indication that a majority of veterans feel a bonus is desirable. While the VFW has announced itself as favoring the bonus, the new but active AVC is definitely in the opposition, and the American Legion, so far non-committal nationally...
Soon, at London's request, the new International Court of Justice will review Guatemala's old claim that British Honduras is hers. Most citizens do not like the idea. Said one Edgar Gilbert Napier Gegg, a storekeeper: "In the momentous year of 1798 the question was settled decisively by the Battle of St. George's Cay" (in which a British flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron, assured British control of the coast). To show where they stood, the settlement's Loyal and Patriotic Order of Baymen revived last week the anniversary of the battle (which Guatemalans...
...Presbyterian Church is still willing to continue negotiations with the Episcopal Church after that exhibition, they can well claim to represent an essence of Christianity unique in the modern world...
...appears to believe that he has actually conjured up out of the past, by a kind of detective work of the imagination, real events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...