Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, U. S. A., Charles Recht, U. S. attorney for the Soviet Government, announced that he had filed 200 suits against the New York Life Insurance Co. and the Equitable Life Assurance Society in an effort to obtain over $2,000,000 due to Russian holders of pre-revolution policies issued by these concerns...
...people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that the primary object of this expedition is to obtain accurate maps and photographs of the ruins as they now exist. The field of exploration is as yet so little known that no excavation can even be attempted...
...students who plan to leave the general vicinity of Cambridge during the Christmas holidays must return all books to the College Library before leaving, it was announced last night. Those students who desire to take books away with them must obtain special permission at the Delivery Desk before leaving...
...During the last school year, that of 1924-25, military instruction was given in more than 226 educational institutions in the United States: The exact number is difficult to obtain. 226 institutions maintained units of the R. O. T. C., but as explained, the Secretary of War encourages military training in schools which do not establish R. O. T. C. For the schools with R. O. T. C. Congress appropriated $3.818,020 and the number of students taking military instruction was 125,504. To these schools, the War department assigned 768 officers and 1,064 enlisted men to carry...
...request of a number of graduate students that they be given authority to organize a Graduate School team to take part in a skiing tournament at Lake Placid during the Christmas holidays was also granted. The provisions were that such a team must obtain the approval of the deans of the several graduate schools, that it must be representative of the various graduate schools as a whole, and that the name adopted by the organization be approved by the Chairman of the Committee...