Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President also said: "Our country nourishes no dangerous ambition. It hopes only to obtain payment of the reparations which have been solemnly promised and the guarantees of security which will not be illusory. In the Experts' Report, to which, as proof of our conciliatory spirit we have hastened to give our adherence, the problem of reparations seems to be evolving toward a solution. For that, however, it is essential that the debtor give as large proof of good will and good faith as the creditor and that this proof be given by facts and not by simple promises without...
...four occasions Mexico had complained against Cummins and had unsuccessfully petitioned for his withdrawal. Being unable to obtain any satisfaction, notice had been given to Mr. Cummins to quit the country within eight days...
...most surprising merger suggested has been the acquisition of various branch roads by the formerly disrupted but now promising Missouri Pacific. Now Southern Pacific enters the lists with a proposal to acquire the El Paso & Southwestern, and hints that it will next try to obtain the Rock Island system...
...have proved shockingly impermanent. Sargent's Madame X and Renoir's Madame Charpentier, to mention only two of the paintings in the Metropolitan (Manhattan), are badly cracked and peeling. Professor Forbes has suggested that "perhaps a time will come when all artists may be able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will not last. It is too much to expect every artist to be a chemist who can test his own pigments...
...terrible "sleeping sickness," and as such may make huge areas in Africa habitable. The Germans keep the secret of this drug very well, and intend to use it solely in the promotion of their own colonial enterprises. Meanwhile the French and British chemists are making great efforts to obtain the same drug through intensive research. It may be that the key to the future development of the whole continent of Africa is at present bottled up on the shelves of German chemical laboratories...