Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...
...James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University, has become well known for his progressive ideas in education and particularly for his desire to help brilliant students to obtain a college education whether or not they have the necessary money...
...studying the behavior of complex electrical systems, it is frequently desirable to solve algebraic equations of the seventh or eighth degree-that is, equations containing terms raised to the seventh or eighth power. It is impossible to obtain formal, exact solutions of equations higher than the fourth degree. Approximate numerical solutions of equations of the fifth degree and up can be arrived at by laborious trial & error, trying one value, then another, and so on until a value is found which approximately fits the mathematical statement...
...past to have his transcribed radio programs (frorrf .18 stations) put off the air, and to have the Post Office Department find something illegal about Psychiana, but also for the fact that he was indicted and tried on charges that he made false statements in attempting to obtain a U. ,S. passport. He was acquitted in 1936. Doc Robinson, who, it turned out, had simply been mistaken about his birth-he is actually a British subject-was then arrested on a deportation warrant charging him with illegal entry into the U. S. Upon intervention of Idaho's Senator Borah...
...what extent in the Alumni Placement office established to secure employment for graduate students? Today, as when it was organized, the Placement office will try to aid any person ever enrolled in any Department or School of the University to obtain employment in business and industry. This includes undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni seeking permanent placement...