Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with policy as beneath its consideration. In the next two years, undergraduates are going to be faced with the problem of overcrowding, of incorporating married veterans into the life of the College, and of the eternal pocketbook. The only medium through which students will be able to demand and obtain action is through a Council sensitively alert to their problems and eligible to speak for them. The only way such a Council can be realized is through the adoption next fall of the plan for revision of the Council Constitution outlined by the Undergraduate Committee for a Democratic Council...
General Eisenhower stated several months ago that "Hungry men make wars." The present critical situation in Europe cannot begin to be resolved until the people concerned can at least obtain the bare necessities of life. The resources of the Harvard Food Committee are not large, so they have decided to concentrate on alleviating the conditions of a small but promising group: the university students. The price of one night's entertainment is a small sacrifice...
Although Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson recently announced that the Army hoped to obtain new men through the recruiting program, voluntary enlistments during July ran about 9,500 a week, or a drop of almost two-thirds below the fixed figure of 25,000 a week...
...main problem faced at the Columbia University meetings was that of tenure and the permanence of such a program. The scientists unanimously agreed that they could not obtain sufficiently skilled technicians under a short, one or two year, contract...
Admitting to Casa Rosada (Government House) newshawks that the reasons for higher prices were "more intricate than appears at first sight," Perón flatly promised that "if within 60 days the Government does not obtain the collaboration which it requests . . . it will be obliged to raise salaries up to 40% and freeze existing prices...