Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mounties whisked him off to Montreal. There, next day, in the highceilinged, dusty Police Court, Fred Rose (born Rosenberg), 38-year-old native of Poland, naturalized Canadian, was arraigned on grave charges: that he "did unlawfully, for purposes prejudicial to the safety . . . of Canada, obtain, collect, record, publish and communicate to other persons, sketches, plans, models, articles, notes and other documents and information . . . intended to be . . .useful to . . . the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...will scarcely be noticeable: large parts of the Continent have been fasting, wearing sackcloth, and living amid ashes for several years. Even in one of Europe's best-fed countries, Cardinal Bernard Griffin last fortnight told his London archdiocese: "We are free to eat whatever we can obtain...
...take advantage of the new plan, a student must first obtain the approval of the department in which he is concentrating and may then apply to the Administrative Board. No man excused from the general examinations will be eligible for departmental honors...
...Petroleum deposits lying between the ocean's low-tide mark and the three-mile limit. For several years control of tidelands oil has been a hot federal-state controversy. A federal suit to obtain title is pending in the Supreme Court; a bill to give title to the states is pending in the Senate...
Fact or Guesswork? By examining General Motors' books, the fact-finding panel could obtain detailed information on 1) the company's recent costs and profits on war contracts, and 2) costs and profits in making automobiles four years...