Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concessions- To help hasten this return, France granted reductions in 19 rates. Duty on grapefruit and automobile chassis was halved. Reductions of smaller and varying percentages were made on sewing-machine heads, canned asparagus, spark plugs, dried prunes, fountain pens, raisins, cash registers and unsweetened pineapple juice (the French obtain their sweetened juice from French West Africa and Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth...
...courses in Japanese and Chinese are grouped in a department, it will be possible for men to obtain advanced degrees, and to follow a plan of graduate study in those departments. It is partly to allow this, partly because it is felt that the history of the next few years will demonstrate the necessity of study of the Orient, that the new Division was proposed...
...little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often be kept in children's institutions with immunity but if allowed in the community will apparently seek an adult partner on the street." -Drs. Lauretta Bender...
Among certain pious and ingrained orthodox Jews exists a belief that rabbis, closer to God than ordinary people, may obtain spiritual benefits on behalf of the sick or the troubled. Such Jews also believe that benefit may be derived from performing a good deed or mitzvah, such as giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn...
Candidates for the degrees of A.B. and S.B. who wish to obtain tickets for the exercises in Sever Quadrangle on Commencement morning should apply at 4 University Hall on or before Wednesday, June 10, in accordance with directions which may be secured at 4 University Hall...