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Word: obtained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been received at the end of the first drive. Since the Board wants to have 500 pledged, they will meet today to devise means of increasing the number. The banking situation has seriously hurt the advertising, so all Freshmen are asked to help out if they think they can obtain any more advertisements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS BOARD OF RED BOOK FILLS ALL POSITIONS | 3/16/1933 | See Source »

Senator Pomerene does not err in fearing a loss of smooth operative efficiency with the Corporation records available to all. He might once have been correct in regretting the unfounded, distrust of the beneficiary banks which would obtain among certain portions of the people. But no pure consideration of expediency, however strong, should invalidate the very real right of the public to accurate knowledge of the financial functions of its government. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has no prerogative to the secrecy which has been denied the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Federal Reserve Board. Although it is futile to talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "VICIOUS" REVELATIONS | 3/15/1933 | See Source »

...never had pictures of many members of the faculty, particularly the younger men, the section which is devoted to the Faculty will be greatly enlarged this year to include them, B. K. Bachrach '33, chairman of the Album Committee announced last night. Every attempt is being made to obtain the photographs by Friday, which is the final date for sending them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVOTE SECTION OF NEW 1933 ALBUM TO FACULTY | 3/14/1933 | See Source »

This week the League Assembly of 57 states, summoned by its Belgian President Paul Hymans, was to act on the Report in extraordinary session, putting forth what Geneva statesmen called the most powerful and concerted effort to obtain peace ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: World v. Japan | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...reproducing old works has reached a high degree of perfection. "The only real obstacle the Germans have met in their work is the copying of manuscripts illuminated with gold paint. The Medieval artists used gold leaf burnished by hand, but no modern reproducer has been able to obtain the same effect, although many different methods have been tried. In all other respects I think these are very accurate reproductions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/23/1933 | See Source »

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