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Word: obtaine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidates must choose a piece of literature in either prose or poetry, from English, Latin, or Greek, Professor Hillyer said, and submitted to him for approval. Although the closing date of registration is March 1 at 5 o'clock, candidates may obtain time extensions for choosing their selections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTRY DATE ANNOUNCED FOR SPEAKING PRIZES | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used for fellowships which would enable men in newspaper work to come to the University for a period of study. These 'in-service fellowships' will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible for the holders to obtain a leave of absence from their regular work without too great financial loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Conant's Full Report to Overseers | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description of what Lord Rutherford called "a world of its own"-the atomic nucleus. "Now, perhaps," concluded the professor, "Colonel Moore-Brabazon will give me a logical statement of British foreign policy in the last ten years, which has puzzled me as ;much as the nuclear mechanics of the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: European Atom | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Major General William D. Connor, superintendent of the Military Academy, without giving any reason, announced: "Hereafter the eligibility rules which obtain at Annapolis and the leading civilian colleges in the country will be applied in determining the eligibility of cadets to play upon the athletic teams of the Military Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reform | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Many a San Franciscan last week learned for the first time that one of his city's most famed financiers and business men, President Herbert Fleishhacker of Anglo California National Bank, had been sued by stockholders of the bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Decision in San Francisco | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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