Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight steps are necessary to transform orthotoluidine, the coal-tar product, into cortisone. Less than 20 steps are required to obtain cortisone from oxbile, the raw material used in the present process...
Mackenzie built Matador's stock to what proud Matador hands called "the world's finest" herd of Herefords. He once said: "If we can obtain a bull that will add 10? a head to the price of Matadors over a period of years, there is no price too great for us to pay." For Murdo, work was an obsession. "I can't see why men would play golf when they can work," he said...
Summed up CAB: Janas "may have falsified Colonial's accounts and reports, may have failed to disclose stock ownership . . . may have failed to obtain approval of interlocking relationships . . . and may have so managed and conducted Colonial's business as not to conform to the standards of honest, economical and efficient management...
Certainly Harvard must not go down this path in its campaign to obtain an all-round national student body. Athletics are still an extra-curricular activity. A university is still basically a community of scholars seeking after truth. It is not, nor should it ever become, the refuge of the physically able seeking after money...
Having been out of contact with so-called civilization for nearly six months, we had the good fortune recently to obtain a copy of TIME, March 19 from a passing schooner. May I rectify a small error in your reference to my father in that issue? You state that he commenced his psychic inquiries in 1919. Actually, he began his investigations in 1884; it was not until 1916 that he received evidence of survival after death of such irrefutable quality as to finally satisfy even his Sherlock Holmes's brain...