Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready for occupancy at the end of their current term, while such space as that in Ray Tompkins House of the Yale A. A. normally used to house visiting athletic teams, is slated to be utilized in the emergency, by single students, for whom Yale is also attempting to obtain Army barracks...
...Englishman, thank Mr. Ernest Nathan [who said that none of Britain's colonial natives risked their lives for the Empire in the war against Japan-TIME, April 22] for his letter of lofty advice upon how an Englishman may obtain "clean hands?" I trust that the hand that wrote that letter is quite clean in the eyes of your millions of Negroes, not to mention the Indians who have for generations been concentrated in reservations...
...hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way." Power, and its high priest, the bully, are becoming democratic idols...
Before even considering a loan to Britain, would it not be wise first to obtain a guarantee from her that none of this money would be used to suppress peoples who are attempting to gain their independence...
...view of all these facts, how can Harvard University obtain, or even have the gall to ask, leave to raise its rents? Can it be that Harvard-already one of the most expensive schools in the country-is trying to build up its reputation as a rich man's college and thus eliminate the average discharged G. I. who can't afford the luxury of a $75 a month suite? My roommate is far more eloquent on the subject than am I, but unfortunately I cannot quote him in writing for possible publication except in essence when his remarks translate...