Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed. Some had gotten better jobs at Vassar, Wisconsin, Harvard or in Government agencies. Some declared that they were fed-up with the administration's constant kowtowing to the Farm Bureau...
Last week their curiosity was satisfied but their peeves were still evident. The busy Navy had rudely awakened them from a long cherished dream, but it has not yet gotten around to paying in full the purchase price...
Private Charles Abromowitz: "The Germans are a bunch of tough boys. I just hate 'em. I think they have gotten the whole world in an uproar. I'm sure looking forward to going...
...professionally cheerful voice of Bandmaster Horace Heidt, "what will the country offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...
...warring blend of the things he picked up through respect for his solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail...