Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless Maher can obtain an injunction, the City Manager will have the job of choosing a chief by October 7, the legal deadline...
...urging that the law deal fairly with men still in school, especially with college and pre-college students. They pointed out, for example, that the best ends of democracy would be served if students were treated as citizens first, secondly as men who happened to be able to obtain some sort of higher education. Obviously, while a new measure was first going into operation, it might be impossible to work this deal into practice: but a law with some long-range goal in view should at least make the ideal possible...
...FitzJames was really no more than a crude pioneer compared to P. J. Asquith, also of Lowell. Asquith maintained for four brilliant years the illusion that he never went to lectures, and made his name by affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...
...FitzJames was really no more than a crude pioneer compared to P. J. Asquith, also of Lowell. Asquith maintained for four brilliant years the illusion that he never went to lectures, and made his name by affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...
...America had not and did not need to have any significant trade with the Soviet ; it means little or nothing to her to discontinue the imports of furs, caviar and crab. With us, things are quite different. We obtain from the Soviet bloc essential foods and raw materials [timber and grain]-and we believe that in these trade exchanges we get as good as we give, economically and strategically...