Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...School Scholarship Plan will partially alleviate this situation by providing better financial computation of applicants' family financial situations. The richer schools will still continue to award more than the colleges because: their students often cannot obtain summer jobs, as much term-time work, or take loans...
Commuters must obtain the material at 2 University Hall...
...would have been easier for Dulles to obtain these funds, had he not revealed that $250,000, allotted last year, has not been spent. The appropriation had been designed to pay for a new pass-port-making machine which, unfortunately, has not yet been invented. We commend the Secretary for his candor in revealing the surplus and for his vision in providing opportunities for budding inventors. As it stands now, however, the pass-ports will probably just have to be turned out the old way, so that our diplomats can have their recreation and the Suez can have its users...
Burke indicated that his staff is interested chiefly in extending opportunities in the areas of industry and construction. He noted that this new emphasis should enable students to obtain higher paying jobs...