Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, though it was too early to hazard the statement that Abyssinia positively will not obtain justice or redress through the League, the Italian Foreign Office issued a significant statement: "The incidents culminating in a protest by Abyssinia to the League may be considered closed. The Government of France has indicated that it will not support the claims of Abyssinia before the League...
...away a bit with its common sense. Further perusal showed the analogies to be matters of fact-"seventh in area," "wealth $3,285 per capita," "eighth in rank as a coal producer. . . ." Where except in reference books, such as the Britannica, did the World expect Mr. Coolidge to obtain statistics if he insisted upon using them in his Colorado semicentennial address...
...cents higher." Potential millions lay in the darkness of Reporter Nicholl's pocket. Unabashed, he went to his New Jersey home. If he was excited, only his wife and small baby knew it. Sunday being a day of rest, he rested. Monday morning he helped his brother obtain a position in uptown Manhattan. Not until then did he remember that he ought to report his interview with Mr. Cochran to his city editor. He telephoned the story. At 11:55 a. m. innocent looking financial news tickers emitted the words of Thomas Cochran. Post No. 5 on the floor...
...statesmen in the newspapers; of the sepia supplements and the ravishing hosiery advertisements; of the stunning magazine covers, richly illustrated natural histories, automobile catalogs and many more visual luxuries that are rushed today before the eyes of a sophisticated world. Frederick E. Ives was a Connecticut boy, who obtained a post at Cornell University in charge of photographic laboratory work. In 1879 he developed his first ideas for reproducing on a metal printing plate all the details, tone and "half tones" of a photograph, painting or drawing. In 1881 he produced the first printing blocks which, by printing one after...
...Philadelphia guests something that he had concealed from re- porters in New York. Not only had he been assured by his lawyers (Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone) that progress was being made in the reconstruction of his wealth; not only might he go to court to obtain his patrimony, which is withheld because his father, Cornelius III, "has old fashioned ideas about the newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future; but he was. likewise determined...