Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation which would allocate funds enabling senior R.O.T.C. men to obtain solo hours at private flying schools, Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...
...have 30,000 well-armed partisans at our disposal, and if the Government doesn't give us prompt proof of its democratic spirit, we shall have to fight, because only by fighting can we obtain any positive results...
...plutonium pile has been used only for research, where it has been extremely useful: "The fast reactor gives a more intense source of fast neutrons than physicists heretofore have been able to obtain, except during the brief time of the test of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert...
...nine years as dean of the Harvard Law School, Aztec-faced James M. Landis acquired a certain ponderosity of language. As director of the Office of Civilian Defense in 1942, Landis ordered federal buildings to obtain "obscuration . . . either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination." President Roosevelt laughingly rewrote this as ". . . put something across the window ... or turn out the lights...
...group signed food contracts and arranged financial affairs in Switzerland. Later a squad drove to Prague and persuaded the Czech government to ship the first meat exports in its history to Leopoldskron. And most important, the administrators carried on a constant long-distance struggle with many European officials to obtain visas for would-be students...