Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the yet unfixed budget prevents any concrete plans, the competitions for the various boards are already under way. Another new idea this year permits a candidate for the advertising board to obtain a commission of 10% on all advertisements he acquires
...announce his candidacy at a "meeting . . . called to obtain the names and records of previous experience of all Freshmen interested in serving on the Smoker or Jubilee Committees." This meeting will be held on Monday night at 7:15 o'clock in the lower common room of the Union...
...King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard, His Majesty exclaimed: "Gentlemen, the Japanese offered me twice as much for one-third of what you now obtain...
...forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...
...onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...