Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Jeanroy was much perturbed when the reporter expressed the opinion, now fairly current among undergraduates, that for the average American student to obtain lodgings in Paris while studying there was nearly impossible unless unlimited funds were at his disposal...
Following the policy inaugurated two years ago when the first Valentine Dance was held the Union, in choosing men to usher, has endeavored to obtain as representative a group as possible. The list for this year includes names from nearly every department of the University from every class and from the Graduate Schools...
...clear by the Italian and British press for some months past. Mr. Churchill was acutely conscious that the British taxpayer believes himself to have concluded a far too lenient tentative Anglo-French debt settlement with the wily M. Caillaux (TIME, Sept. 7, COMMONWEALTH). Ergo, Mr. Churchill was expected to obtain proportionately more from Italy than he had been able to extract* from France. Britons roughly figure the full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million pounds ($2,818,800,000) ; and considering that Britain is paying a total of $92,310,000 a year...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...
...fairness to Mr. Young, he does not explain these averages as due to a love of literature peculiar to Princeton. In accordance with a new system of study, the student is required to obtain a knowledge of the subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...