Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning this morning undergraduates may obtain tickets on presentation of their Bursar's Cards in Hunt Hall...
...Agencies and the Western India Agencies; astute and charming Francis Verner Wylie, the Resident at Jaipur, who must cope with the rulers of Jammu & Kashmir, Rajputana Agency and the Punjab States Agency; and scholarly, muscular Arthur Cunningham Lothian of the Political Department of the Government of India who must obtain the signature of "The Richest Man in the World" in Hyderabad, as well as those of the native rulers of Mysore Travancore, Cochin, Central India and the Eastern States Agencies...
Devaluation and "alignment" of the franc at about 21 to the dollar and at about 101 to the pound sterling was only a fraction of what Socialist Blum, who was strongly pressed by the Communist Deputies among his supporters, had sought to obtain from Parliament. Ignoring the peasantry, the numerous artisans and small shopkeepers and the French middle classes, the Communists got the Premier to write into his bill a measure which would automatically have raised the wages of proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose...
Decade ago a strapping young German Catholic priest, who had entered the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport. To obtain a civilian pilot's license tall, blond Rev. Paul Schulte flew surreptitiously until his ecclesiastical superiors discovered it, grounded him. To this disappointment was added deeper sorrow when Father Schulte learned of the fate which had overtaken a fellow Oblate, Rev. Otto Fuhrmann with whom he had been inseparable in the flying corps, in whose company he had entered...
...benefits of a democratic form of government are to be preserved," the way to do it is to make sure that every voter who comes to the polls should be known to election commissioners beforehand. To this end, the incorruptible men in blue, Boston's "finest," will obtain the signature of every prospective voter on a neat card, and the cards will then be salted away to be referred to, perhaps, on election day. This is a step in the right direction but destined to be a fruitless one; for it not only boldly assumes that Boston voters...