Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impractical because, by barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom...
...before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars...
Part of this huge defense expense may be met through a "profit" which the Government last week arranged to obtain by revaluing its gold. Introduced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons was a bill to allow the Government to revalue each week, at the current market price, the gold holdings of the Bank of England. Since Britain went off the gold standard in 1931 this gold has been carried at the old parity of 855. per ounce. Gold was last week selling at 148½. per ounce in the open market. At the old figure the Bank...
...Hahn bombarded his bit of uranium with neutrons in order to obtain ekarhenium, a heavy element similarly created some years ago by Italian Physicist Enrico Fermi. Hahn obtained ekarhenium, all right, and something else he did not expect, which he identified as atoms of barium and krypton. He applied the principles of quantum mechanics (atomic mathematics) to find out how much of a tempest in a test tube occurs when ekarhenium breaks up into barium and krypton. Answer: 200,000,000 volts...
Holmes deplored the use of political influence to obtain teaching positions in public schools, and declared that if the superficial requirements for teachers were to be changed, then "institutions of university rank must lead the way in a very different and much more radical attack on the direct preparation of teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...