Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure is just as easy to devise as the gyp itself. A requirement that all X-card holders obtain books of coupons, each worth a definite number of gallons, would solve the riddle. There need be no limit on the number of tickets a person may have, but every purchase of motor fuel must be accompanied by an exchange of coupons. Total sales for each station could then be easily checked against the number of coupons clipped. Some such arrangement, if adopted, would mean that New England's chances of having gas next fall need not depend on the activities...
...this issue is by Mark Shorer of Harvard's English Department. "Sons and Lovers Reconsidered" expertly analyzes D. H. Lawrence's first novel. Examining the author's motives in writing it, a desire to free himself from a mother fixation, Shorer demonstrates that Lawrence as a novelist could never obtain the complete objectivity necessary for an author indulging in autobiographical material. It is a shrewdly written reconsideration, albeit a trifle obvious in dealing with the Miriam-Paul relationship...
...Navy has announced that it will now receive applications for the Naval Supply Corps from men who would normally graduate by June 1943. This procurement program is in addition to the program recently announced for graduates and men who will obtain their degrees in 1942. The requirements for the 1943 group are the same as previously announced for the 1942 group...
Steer the ship from its various steering stations, take soundings with lead lines, sounding machine, and rathemeter, use a polars, and navigation rangeunder, obtain and plot bearings. Operate signals control apparatus and make emergency signals from the bridge, operate searchlights, use the anemometer, tide and current tables and use and correct sailing charts and sailing directions. Take care of the chronometer, identify stars, take sun and star sights and determine ship's position. Use dead reckoning radio bearings and soundings as navigational aids, and interpret weather signals. Send and receive international Code by blinker, searchlight and semaphore, and identify...
Durant also emphasized that those students who did not register at Memorial Hall because they are under 18, must obtain from home the Ration Book which their parents should get for them and then deposit these books with the Dining Hall supervisors...