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Word: obtained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yalies failed to obtain University permission to distribute the papers, and apparently unwittingly violated a federal regulation which prohibits the use of mailboxes for anything other than mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yalies Stuff The Daily Into House Mailboxes | 2/10/1965 | See Source »

Wednesday dinners at Radcliffe are now open free to Harvard guests, but their Radcliffe hosts must first obtain reservation tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interhouse Plan Goes into Effect | 2/8/1965 | See Source »

...Kennedys have offered to donate half of the Yards to the University if they obtain them. Harvard now believes, however, that the most suitable location for the tenth House may be in the vicinity of Dunster House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Appoints 10th House Planner | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...started, will take some six years to complete. And the blackmail against Bonn may well backfire, since the West German aid of $242 million to the 13 Arab states would be cut off with the breaking of diplomatic relations. That is a sum the Arabs could scarcely hope to obtain from East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Somewhat Secret Pressure | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Oil, Oil Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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