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Word: obtained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning the current experiments in mental telepathy-Huntington says, "The implications involved in the existence of ability to obtain knowledge of external facts through channels other than the usual five senses are clearly of startling importance for all our scientific and philosophic thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNTINGTON EXPLAINS DUKE TELEPATHY TEST | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

...strike, the city in an uproar (TIME, Feb. 28). In an hour 2,700 copies of the 10? Focus were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Picture Monthlies | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...extent of the organization is restricted to Massachusetts, there being more than 108 hospitals in the State, 24 in the Boston area, which will honor membership cards. Members who intend to travel, however, may obtain Blue Cross Identification Cards which will admit the bearer "to any general hospital in the world." The association further asserts that "no embarrassing questions will be asked" when the member applies for admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMPLOYEES GIVEN CHANCE TO INSURE AGAINST ILLNESS | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...more than three thousand men and twenty ships, made its objective the attacking of British commerce, while in later wars it was the protection of our commerce from attack which guided naval action. By striking at British merchant ships, the rebels kept up communication with France, thereby helping to obtain an alliance that proved invaluable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...first asking. Government 1 complied by purchasing, in all, eighteen books, just enough to permit everybody to do their week's work. This week, however, the conscientious members of the department decided to use Fritz Morstein Marx's "Government in the Third Reich." Of this they were able to obtain just four copies. When it is taken into consideration that there are approximately 500 in the course, and only 78 hours during a week in which Boylston is open, it becomes mathematically impossible to believe that more than 185 students will be able to do the required work. Practical proof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOONDOGGLE | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

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