Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe, and eventually to the development of imperial resources and an increase of inter-empire trade." It is expected that a relief for the unemployment tangle will be sought in the Imperial Conference which meets in London in October. During the last quarter nearly 1,000 aliens failed to obtain permission to enter Britain. In this period 87,953 aliens, including those in transit, landed in Britain, 74,633 embarked and permission to land was denied to 926. The corresponding figures for last year: 87,616 aliens landed, 74,213 embarked, 704 were refused permission to land...
...Nomination Day it is expected that some 500 candidates for 153 seats will be announced. The main Parties: Government, headed by W. T. Cosgrave; Labor, headed by Thomas Johnson; Radical Labor, James Larkin; Republican, Eamon de Valera. Political opinion at Dublin thinks that the Government Party will obtain a small majority over the other parties...
...jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...
...satisfied with converting the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad from an obscure failure into a well advertised and moderately successful line, Henry Ford is now planning to electrify it to obtain cheaper operation. Contracts totaling $1,000,000 have been let to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company for new electrical equipment, including locomotives, and active preparations are already in progress for the electrification of the road's first unit...
...best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march of the race from monkey...