Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students can obtain special "student-rate" tickets for the individual sessions. This will be the twenty-seventh foreign affairs school presented by the Women Voters with the cooperation of Radcliffe...
...forceful manner will be as important to the average student as skill in writing, for the world will definitely call upon him to talk about his ideas more often than write them. The University, however, not only fails to require work in speech, but makes it impossible to obtain instruction equivalent to what is required in writing. Although four half-courses are offered in speech, only one may be counted as credit for a degree, and none for concentration in English...
...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...
...wrote letters to China and the U.S., and even took a trip to Wisconsin to find Bridge House veterans. He besieged his local M.P. with evidence and demands that the government act. "It had proved impossible," War Secretary Shinwell told the House of Commons last June, "to obtain evidence ... to bring these Japanese to trial...
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, U.S.-touring "Red Dean" of Canterbury, thought he agreed with Harry Truman about red herrings (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Declared the Dean: "Too much is being said about the. spy investigation. If the Russians did obtain any American state secrets they were justified in doing so because all nations indulge in spying...