Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Failure to obtain production rights from the Theatre Guild makes it impossible for the Dramatic Committee of the Harvard Student Union to stage Louis Untermyer's 1922 translation of Ernst Toller's "Man and the Masses...
...Arthur Neville Chamberlain. The village vicar, the Rev. H. R. P. Tringham, took as the text of his sermon, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Said the vicar in his sermon: "No one labored more hard, or so spared himself rest, to obtain for you and me and for all fellow men the blessings of peace. Although it seemed a failure, it was a grand failure...
...which the Digest poll went down to disaster a new kind of poll had its first public trial. Instead of inviting one & all to send in a postcard vote, it questioned a far smaller number of people about their opinions, carefully selecting those questioned in an effort to obtain a representative cross section of the population...
...conceivably reflect true public opinion more accurately than the election itself." But he also insists on the limitations of his polls. He steadfastly refuses to make any forecast of electoral votes. The important and proper use of his political surveys is, he insists, not to predict elections but to obtain an over-all view of popular sentiment on public issues...
...statute books. The general rules as laid down by the University are "subject to interpretation" by masters and senior tutors, and consequently varying degrees of strictness have developed in different Houses. In one, a student simply signs a book for guests on Saturdays and Sundays, without having to obtain any official sanction; in another, permissions are dispensed with in practice; and in all Houses infringements by students of some or all of the rules are common. Uniformity cannot and should not crush out "states' rights" in the Houses, but a switch to the simpler, more sensible Oxford card system...