Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic...
...filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game
...they're ag'in it. "Black-view," they claim, "it doesn't make any difference, but front view!" Although a few are resigned to letting their girls make their own decisions, the majority likes its women--women...
...expected that Mr. Dulles would be Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. This was the first time that many people had ever heard of the newly-created "expert." If he had become Secretary of State then or in 1948 he would now have a right to claim the credit for forming our foreign policy, for it is the Secretary of State, as Mr. Dulles should know, who has this particular responsibility...