Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee of Congress was informed that phonographers paid $100,000 to obtain a satisfactory record of Nearer, My God, to Thee. The items of expense were: one church, one organ, one expert, ten years' effort. These facts were used as an argument against any change in the copyright laws which would permit composers to demand larger royalties...
...that tremendous faculty for prolonged concentrated effort that is found only in the great Edison, Roosevelt, Bismarck, and Cavour. While at the Yale Divinity School he prepared a thesis of 75,000 words to obtain his Ph.D. His professor, Dr. George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, then teaching at Yale, remarked that he didn't see how any man could have completed such a task...
...unmitigated hore. Divisional examinations can never show brilliance of intellect, except of the synthetic variety, as they are too inclusive, and frequently contain questions that are properly subjects for books. Would President Lowell grant a degree to a man who wrote an excellent divisional examination and also failed to obtain in his Senior year the required number of credits? Such procedure seems hardly probable...
...dutifully raises his hat at each mention of the House of Commons. Lord Byng, surrounded by equerries, Cabinet Ministers, officers, stands up to read the speech, previously written for him by the Prime Minister. The most important points made last week: 1) That an attempt would be made to obtain Parliamentary sanction for the calling of a Conference between Provincial and Federal governments to amend the British North America Act "with respect to the execution and powers of the Senate and other important particulars." 2) That the desirability of equalizing the railway freight rates will be inquired into. 3) That...
Eating dinners is a peculiar custom of the English which has great significance. At Oxford a man's first duty is to "keep term," without which, work as he may, he cannot possibly obtain a degree. "Keeping term," brought down to its final analysis, consists in eating a given number of dinners at his college. In London, a law student at the Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister...