Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States has given us a lead regarding the way when a country is in financial difficulties it can get out of them." As a matter of fact Sir Stafford anticipated in Great Britain by a few months the system used by Washington's "Brain Trust" to obtain from Congress powers for President Roosevelt so sweeping that they have been called dictatorial. Labor, according to Sir Stafford as early as last January, must use any victory which the Party may win in a general election to jam through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill...
...Chronicle" will be published again this year, with James W. Tower '35 taking over the duties of editor. Tower hopes to obtain many articles written by various House members, and in this way, increase the size of the book...
...businessmen, with approximately $45,000,000 in blocked Argentine accounts, reared in alarm. Long hoping that through some miracle they would be able to obtain better terms, they suddenly realized last week that they will only be able to get their money by tying it up as the British have done in long-term bonds and selling them as opportunity offers for what they will bring. In Washington Secretary Hull offered little sympathy. Said...
...steam and hot air systems is that hot water retains its heat longer than do steam or air. Hot liquids in general are better storers of heat than are vapors or gases. But it is difficult to raise the temperatures of liquids to very high, useful heats. Chemical engineers obtain controlled temperatures of about 900° F. with an organic substance, diphenyl. Highest degree to which water can go and remain water is 698° F. Its pressure against pipes is then almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur...
...therefore, to the best interests of society that the members of the Legislature remember the days of their youth, and realizing that human nature has not changed, make it possible for youth to obtain decent liquor...