Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Evangelical leaders. He also made hopeful eyes at President Roosevelt, declaring that the U. S. will be unable to keep out of any major war and should join in cracking down on Il Duce. The Archbishop of York publicly hoped that the League of Nations will ask and obtain aid of the Great Powers to close the Suez Canal against Italian forces, thus barring the eagles of Fascism from their prey. Finally up from the French baths of Aix heaved Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and, amid a sensational recalling of the whole British Cabinet from their various vacation hideouts...
...after their Freshman year are eligible for Student Council aids. These are granted on the basis of financial necessity but unlike college scholarships, do not impose scholastic stipulations. Men whose general extra-curricula activities have made it impossible for them to obtain high grades may, if they require it, obtain Student Council assistance. Not seldom, the outstanding men of their class have been enabled to finish college by this means...
Financial difficulties are especially troublesome to the Freshman of limited means at Harvard unless he is sufficiently brilliant to obtain some form of University aid. Statistics show that new men should not expect to earn more than $300 by part time work during the school year or the chance of academic success is drastically endangered...
...students are obliged to obtain library numbers in the delivery room which allow them to take out three books at one time for one month periods and to use the special libraries...
...voice is free again, unbridled after years of struggle with the potato. The result of my operation is just short of marvelous. Even now. when I am not fully recovered. I need hardly open my mouth to obtain the pure tones difficult when the potato was in my throat. . . . My voice is like a young colt; I will have to restrain...