Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies...
...abandon ship. When he tried to signal his ship's name and nationality, the Germans cut him short with machine guns. Then came a torpedo. Down went the Meknès. Dead: 383. The Germans (and the Petain Government of France) blamed Britain for not notifying them to obtain safe passage for the Mekn...
...Politics," says Oscar Ameringer, "is the art by which politicians obtain campaign contributions from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other...
Today there will be three tables at the Union for those who wish to obtain their copies: two tables for those who have had their names stamped on the cover, and one for those who bought theirs unstamped...