Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tickets for the performance go on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's this morning, and will remain on sale until Monday to undergraduates only. After Monday they will go on sale to the general public. The purpose of this is to give undergraduates a chance to obtain good seats, since the best tickets for the other two performances were already disposed of before they went on sale to the public. A few people have turned in tickets which were bought for the two regular performances, in exchange for tickets for this performance, so a limited number of tickets...
...Bogota Treaty promises the South American republic twenty-five million dollars, together with certain other concessions as an indemnity for any injury which Colombia might have suffered through the loss of Panama and the building of the Panama canal. The attempt of the present Administration to obtain its immediate ratification recently failed and the Roosevelt senators have served notice on President Harding that they would not allow the treaty to go to vote until the people had a chance to read and hear the question debated in the senate...
...after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary...
...about the middle of May, with an Intercollegiate match between the University, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania. This will probably be the only match with other colleges, but the club is going to arrange contests with several of the Gun Clubs in the vicinity of Boston, in order to obtain all the practice possible...
...voluntary motor mechanics class has been organized by the Military Science Department for men taking the R. O. T. C. course, who wish to obtain information about gasoline engines. Many students in the Field Artillery Unit have enrolled and will be given two lectures a week throughout the spring on the subject; together with some practical experience in driving and repairing various types of engines. Lt. Warren is in charge of the instruction...