Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber, Communist Jacques Duclos reached new highs of invective. When he attacked U.S. aid to France, he was jeered and booed by voices from all the non-Communist benches. Comrade Duclos yelled that Premier Ramadier "wanted to obtain thanks from Washington by taking to your masters there the death certificate of French Communism...
...midst of a drive to obtain a 15 cent an hour wage increase for University-employed maids and janitors, H.U.E.R.A. points with pride to the gains it has won for such groups as the University Police...
Originally, the Council Committee headed by John K. Lally '49 had hoped to obtain the use of the HAA's newly-surfaced parking field near the Stadium at a cost only of the State's dollar-a-year licensing...
...required to fill a book order ranges from fifteen minutes to three-quarters of an hour, as against five minutes at New York's Public Library. By dropping the circulation desk to the ground floor and installing a much discussed book conveyor at each stack level, Widener patrons could obtain necessary references with maximum speed and minimum nail-biting. These technical improvements do not require any long-term project for execution: the only basic requirement is a little hard cash...
...they don't seem to condone such practices as rustling papers and closing notebooks before the lecturer has finished speaking, and in the case of substitute instructors, walking out on them in the midst of the class. In all fairness to those who are attempting to obtain the fullest amount of instruction possible from each lecture, I urge that you take an editorial stand so that a courteous atmosphere may be restored to the classrooms of Harvard. Robert L. Abbey...