Word: claiming
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Greenland, biggest island in the world, more than eight times as big as Great Britain, for 200 years was a bone of contention between Norway and Denmark. Each claimed ownership; Norway annexed the eastern coast. They submitted the dispute to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague which in 1933 upheld Denmark's claim, decided that Denmark was doing "good work." Denmark has made Greenland a closed country. Its 17,000 people are scattered along the barren coasts, the centre of the island being a gigantic uninhabitable icecap. There are 3,000 Eskimos, and Denmark is determined...
Free to set their own wage scale, Harlan operators claim to follow approximately the standard set by U. M. W. and the Appalachian Conference of operators (TIME, April 12). But Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been...
...Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples...
...breathing exercises by which yogins claim to achieve a state of mental sublimity, Dr. Behanan says they merely dulled his wits, possibly due to a lack of oxygen in the brain. Breathing normally, handsome Dr. Behanan, 35, is famed at Yale as a first-class poker player, an ambidextrous ping-pongist hard to beat...
...Harvard shell on Lake Carnegie last Saturday strikes a high point in the comeback of Crimson athletics which has been developing over the current year. With a football team that turned the tables on the predictions of newspaper sages the country over, a court squad that made good its claim to major-sport ranking, and a swimming team that left the prize Bulldogs waterlogged and weary for the first time in thirteen years, the college has burst forth with another top-flight sport...