Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YOUR PIECE ON HERALD'S CENTURY [TIME, SEPT. 2], IF YOU THINK WE COULD OBTAIN PETRILLO'S UNION PORT OF BOSTON BAND FOR FREE YOU ARE NUTS. WE DID NOT PAY ANY HALF PRICE FOR FIREWORKS. IF WE ARE BEST OF THE PURELY LOCAL BOSTON SHEETS, WHY DO WE GOVERN OURSELVES EVERY NIGHT BY THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES? WE HAVE FOUGHT CURLEYISM FOR 15 YEARS AND ON JAN. 23 RAN A TWO-COLUMN LEAD EDITORIAL CALLING ON HIM TO RESIGN- AND NOT IN ANY CAREFULLY MODULATED VOICE EITHER. BUT THANKS JUST THE SAME...
...Navy Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system in the form of 'friendly' neighboring states...
Such procedure places an unnecessary strain on both the veteran's pocketbook and the University library system. The summer term recently completed indicated the shortage of many of the texts most in demand. Unable to obtain textbooks through University or House library sources, veterans were forced to by "unauthorized" but required texts with their own resources, thus adding to the cost of their Harvard education. It will be regrettable if, because of thoughtlessness or carelessness, the experience of the summer term is repeated...
...seeking adequate living space for the expected 3300 married students, some 27 percent of the total, the Housing Office has aimed at better than the minimum. The University would not, for instance, have considered its problem solved if it had been able to obtain 3000 trailers...
Officially all parties must obtain permission of the local German authorities or Russian commander to hold meetings; speakers and speeches must be approved by the Russians. The interminable list of SED rallies indicates that the party has little trouble obtaining permits. Other parties, as one discouraged CDU leader put it, "run into endless chicanery." He added: "It has developed into quite a set pattern. We plan a meeting and tentatively reserve a hall. We submit application for the meeting, but days and sometimes weeks elapse. By the time we receive the approval our hall has been taken by somebody else...