Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate enrollment in the Harvard School of Engineering which fell off last year upon recommendation by the faculty that men applying should obtain a broad education before beginning their study, increased this year from...
Dissatisfied with the facilities offered at Brooks House, where 225 students, ate luncheon daily in crowded quarters, the commuters planned to establish a club similar to the Five-Fifteen Club at M. I. T. and to obtain central headquarters for dancing and other social functions. A complaint was furthermore lodged against the conduct of Brooks House athletics, which the commuters charged was kept in the hands of a few upperclassmen and confined largely to students living in Claverly Hall. The Club proposed to limit its membership to actual commuters and to organize its own teams for competition in intramural athletics...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
Meeting in advance the obvious objection that under such a system each judge will have to make up what is right and wrong as he goes along, Dr. Giirtner weightily declared: "The judge, basing himself on the popular conception of what is right, will obtain an unerringly accurate sense as to what may or may not legally be done. . . . Moreover Realmleader Hitler is ceaselessly endeavoring to be an embodied expression of the people's will. Thus a judge can find in the will of the Realmleader a guiding light to aid him in his own task...
...Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event or for the final Walter performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...