Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole it is a good thing that he should be well rounded; at least, he will now be able to roll smoothly and comfortably through life. If he was born into the world with normal interests and average abilities, if his main ambition is to obtain a good job, settle down, pay his bills, and in other ways become a respectable member of the community, college will have given him the proper equipment. His concentration will have given him sufficient knowledge and training to hold his job; his distribution will have endowed him with certain stimulating outside interests to serve...
...order is expected to enable the Government to obtain the services of some absolutely first class men [i. e. Laborites] hitherto unavailable...
...Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote: "The words used . . . are not in the English language in any way offensive. . . . I did not know that...
...State they would show the forged Illinois license and college diploma, ask for a license from that State, which would be issued perfunctorily. Soon they would return to Illinois, show the license from the neighboring State; demand a complementary one from Illinois. This method, while devious, enabled them to obtain legitimate licenses difficult to trace to their spurious source...
Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed...