Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success of the A.A.F.'s new pilot ejection seat would be welcome news to airmen who had long worried about bailing out of high-speed aircraft. But A.A.F. designers could not claim complete credit. The idea had been copied from a similar Luftwaffe gadget...
...must be admitted, of course, that the Vatican is faced with some very great difficulties in any effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...
...unemployment, and not production. And, on the record, the "give-business-its-head" school of economics and of government never even bothered to face that problem. Whether such hereties as Lord Keynes, Sir William Beveridge and Professor Hansen have solved the puzzle or not, they and their followers can claim credit for facing it more squarely than their more traditional rivals...
Last week 154 Zorn etchings (the biggest show of his work ever) hung in Chicago's Lakeside Press Gallery. But Zorn's claim to greatness, which still seemed assured when he died in 1920, seemed a lot remoter now. Just one Chicago critic bothered to write up the show...
Watch Those Lights! Many of filmdom's best people look down their snobbish noses at the Warners. The brothers are widely regarded as inartistic penny-pinchers. Their detractors claim that the Warners never buy a story if they can remake an old one or snatch a plot out of the newspapers. They discourage fussy, expensive retakes. They frown on temperament in anyone but themselves. As President Harry once said: "Listen, a picture, all it is is an expensive dream. Well, it's just as easy to dream...