Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very low, many students depend on these scholarships. When a quarter of a pound of coffee costs about the 15th part of their grant, it makes a difference whether you receives 1 1/2 times the basic amount or not. Only a few see at what costs they actually obtain this...
Berry Fleming usually succeeds in telling a good Southern story in a moderate Southern accent without resort to miscegenation, lynching, rape or general degeneracy to obtain his effects. In The Fortune Tellers, he has put the race issue into a perspective of human rather than political terms that is probably more accurate than most current Southern writers would have you believe. No Homer, he has, nevertheless, caught the epic essence of man against nature-nature in this case being not only a violent river, but a violent heart...
...about politics, living standards, and their government. The attitude of the Russian people towards the U.S.--that we are a nation of downtrodden slaves, held in check by our capitalist masters--is never mentioned, nor is the Russian emphasis on monetary reward. Facts about Russia are hard enough to obtain; when bona fide ones are available, they should be reported fairly... Ken Emerson...
Procedure for this year's exchange, which opened Monday, is the same as last spring's. Students with used books can bring them to P.B.H., price them, and put them up for sale. Thus, sellers usually obtain more for their used texts than they would get from booksellers, while the buyers usually find prices lower than in the ordinary second-hand stores. P.B.H. makes no profit on the transaction...
Until Cambridge can obtain more garage room, overnight parking on wide streets is the only solution. If zones are planned carefully, the cold war between car-parkers and the police will come...