Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of the procedure agreed upon pending approval of University authorities, the organizations will attempt to get Catholic and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution out of Germany and will pay for their room and board in Cambridge if the University will grant them scholarship to cover their tuition...
Decrying the introduction of big business methods into college football, Hubbard writes, "The men who do all the work get nothing, while the sport as a whole is just as professional as it is possible to make...
...long lives of second-rate writers. For the fluent second-rate writer works regular hours, takes care of himself, makes good investments, usually writes one best-seller and at last acquires a kind of momentum which enables him to go on selling novels that no young novelist could get published...
...lumberjack who hates the conveyer belt and dreams of going into the clam-digging business, it is the work of a University of Michigan graduate, now 44, who received "a sort of scholarship" in a large Detroit factory (presumably Ford's), fled to Southern California "to get away from the roar and thunder of the automatics in the factory and the climbing production figures on the big chart in the office...
...Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Says Big Russ, trying to entice his little pal Bennie (the narrator) to the woods and clam beds: "There'd be the smell of new clover hay and cornflowers in the air and by'n'by the fire would get low and go out and you'd see the fireflies . . . and way off somewhere -t'hell 'n' gone over the river-you'd hear a cowbell...