Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri and Illinois, for instance, rainfall has been far below normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more, and areas of Colorado, Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico have suffered dangerous drought. In all of them last week, not only the topsoil but the subsoil was parched deep down...
...that danger as 'chasing phantoms' . . . We know . . . that men like Alger Hiss and Harry White turned over secret papers to the Communists . . . We know that our atomic experts said that the Russians got the secret of the atomic bomb three to five years before they would have gotten it because of the help they received from Communist spies right here...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...
John W. Stokes '54 reported to the Council that at Bundy's suggestion he had spoken with three department heads, and had gotten their promise to discuss the proposal informally with members of their staffs. Stokes is the original author of the plan to extend the foreign study program to nine fields of concentration in addition to the two now included...
...conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes but a few days a year) back in 1926, has gotten as much as $46,934.40 a year in fees. Parr's enemies, on the other hand, have had trouble, e.g., shortly after a radio commentator named W. H. ("Bill") Mason rashly began opposing Parr on the air in 1949, the deputy sheriff of Jim Wells County shot him dead...