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Word: obtaine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trades and callings, and if they further demand the restitution of those colonial possessions which formerly were their property, which they had not taken away from anybody by robbery or war but honestly acquired by purchase, exchange and treaties. Moreover, in all my demands, I always first tried to obtain revisions by way of negotiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...like to know where they are going and when they will get there, the North Atlantic last week was no fit place. In its third week the ground swell of World War II had tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary of State Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On No Schedule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bottlenecks | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...check on departmental recommendations for appointments. Thus much of the favoritism and prejudice that play so large a part in this system at present will be eliminated. The Dean's Office should now be able to collect supplementary information on candidates for promotion. It should be able to obtain unbiased, expert appraisal of their publications. And, perhaps most important of all, it may have the chance of knowing personally the men in various departments. In a word, the Dean's Office should become, as the Committee hoped it would, "a centralized file for personnel records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Freshmen who have not yet received a copy of the CRIMSON Confidential Guide may obtain this aid to selection of courses free of charge this week at the CRIMSON offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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