Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LaFollette group will have its candidates for office which it probably will not elect; but it will endeavor by this means to prevent the election of extreme conservatives, and to obtain for itself important committee places...
...About the only consolation I can obtain in the matter is that they could not take it away from me at the polls. It was done by the stroke of a pen in the hands of a Governor of a friendly and neighboring state...
...movements, which I believe approximate very closely those used by the original Greek choruses. It took a long time to evolve these dance movements. My son had to spend several weeks in the British Museum studying the figures on the Grecian vases, before at last he was able to obtain a practical conception of the original dances...
Ever since the Volstead act defined the Eighteenth Amendment, the college authorities have been in a quandary what to do about it. Naturally it is difficult to obtain precise data regarding the extent to which the act is violated in the colleges, but information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, together with reports from other seats of learning, indicates that the effect seems to have been to drive many students from the comparative moderation of the last decade...
...expose the 'young married" life of an lowa town, and then a convenient automobile accident polishes off the husband. This felicitous circumstance enables Mr. Sergel to try his hand at existence in the metropolis of Des Moines, the only advantage of which for the reader is that he can obtain all the thrills of a story about the Great City without the every-other-page references to Broadway and 42d Street...