Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such self-discrediting and sorry stuff is worth $16,000, perhaps it is also good business to obtain it by bribery, "planting" of agents in the bureaus of a foreign state, and inciting these agents to commit burglary. Last week Hearstling subordinates testified that such were substantially the methods used to obtain the purported "original documents...
...quote from a recent letter to TIME (Dec. 12) : "The Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . is different from all other ex-service organiza tions in that we still continue to obtain new possible members and are a continuing body. Those last five words, which I have under lined, are of a sinister import. What does the "Junior Vice-Commander" of this organ ization who wrote you mean, if not that the V. of F. W. expect and hope that our country will wage yet another foreign war ? My late husband, the Rev. Jason Parks, was a saintly man devoted to works...
...system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower...
...Harvard Law School has been using the case system for years, and has found it an excellent way of stimulating independent thought. A few years ago, prospective business men went to law school in order to obtain training in scientific methods of research and unshackled thinking--prime requisites in any field of endeavor. Now the mountain has come to Mahomet, and the Harvard Business School uses the case method, with the three-fold purpose of exciting critical analysis, encouraging the use of scientific methods, and giving training in business procedure...
...purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for the general public to become better educated in medical knowledge, at present the average person gains his medical knowledge from hearsay. These lectures will enable everyone taking advantage of them to obtain an authoritative viewpoint on vital aspects of this course...