Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the institutions of a community. It a Turkish woman is seen on the streets unveiled she is conscience stricken, but this is not the case with young girls in America. People are constantly adjusting themselves to innovations. You even get used to thinking of short dressess, I've gotten so that I' look at girls' faces again...
...distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing so here within the picture their relation convinces us and the sensation is fundamentally that which is gotten from contact with actuality although the actual appearance is not aped. The picture become the recreation dependent upon those fundamentals beneath the epidermis of appearances...
Britons know that it was Nurse Knight who gave to Baby Betty a close-fitting necklace of tiny coral beads. The hygienic feature of this necklace is that it is too short to be gotten up over the chin and into the mouth. "Nurse Knight necklaces," as worn by Baby Betty, have become the accepted adornment for occupants of the smart patent leather prams which parade daily in Hyde Park...
...loans. The kingpin was Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, the Inspector General of Customs, under whom 1,000 foreign customs clerks have worked since his appointment in 1911. Last week Chang dismissed Sir Francis, threatened to replace him and all his foreign clerks with Chinese. If this is done, and "gotten away with," the customs revenues will most certainly be diverted from repayment of the foreign loans. Defy. The southern faction likewise retaliated upon Britain. Nationalist (southern) Foreign Minister Eugene Chen promptly broke off negotiations concerning the safety of Britons and their property in China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took...
There is a possibility that a test case, if rushed, can be gotten through the Mexican Supreme Court by next May or June. The immediate effect of cancellation of permits was to throw some 3,000 Mexican laborers who had operated the wells out of work. The Mexican Government appeared disposed to wait until the Mexican Supreme Court had ruled before taking action to alleviate the situation...