Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor. "The right of Labor to an adequate wage earned under healthful conditions, the right to organize in order to obtain it and the right to bargain for it collectively, through agents and representatives of its own choosing, have been established after many years of weary struggle. These rights are conceded now by all fair-minded men. They must not be impaired either by injunction or by any other device...
...want a buffalo in your home? If so, you can obtain one by applying to Secretary Work at the Department of the Interior. You must agree to pay the cost of capturing your buffalo on the range in Yellowstone Park. You must agree to pay the cost of shipping it from the Park to your home. Then it's your very own, except that you must also agree to care for the buffalo and not to kill it except in self-defense...
...Professor Frederick G. Donnan, of London, suggested that as a future source of fuel we may use waterpower to obtain chlorine from salt, the gas to be used as a fuel. Jerome Alexander countered with a proposition to use waterpower to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel. By these means it is proposed to make great savings in transmitting power...
...purpose of this great project is experiment?experiment that deals with the Einstein theory. Chicago University, endowed by John D. Rockefeller, has had the money to obtain the best equipment, both in men and material, for experimental purposes. One of the men is the famous Physics Prof. Albert Abraham Michelson, who not so long ago measured the star, Betelgeuse, although he has other equally famous research and theories to his credit. The object of this new experiment is best explained in the words which one of the experimenting physicists used to simplify the idea of the experiment for the understanding...
Searchers combed the entire countryside in an all-night hunt, but could only report that tens of thousands visited the beaches to obtain relief from the sultry weather...