Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guernsey, assistant director of the Peabody Museum, will go to northeastern Arizona to obtain data for a model of a cliffdwelling. The particular dwelling which will be copied is in the Segi Canyon situated over 200 miles from the nearest railroad. The model will be made and colored insofar as possible in the vicinity of the original...
Suggest that Correspondent Bassett obtain some back copies of Aviation and learn what is going on in the world outside of Boston...
...Colonel of a regiment stationed at Tourelles had written to the War Ministry that he found it impossible, in that region, to obtain an acceptable male cook. Was there, the Colonel sought to know, any permissible alternative? He enclosed without comment the photograph and the credentials of a woman, Mme. Jacquet...
Caribou and reindeer are extremely insistent on having the right climate; the caribou will compromise somewhat on food, but the reindeer goes on a hunger strike unless it is fed reindeer moss, a delicacy difficult to obtain, and impossible to import...
...British government seized the Egyptian customs, asked, and received, indemnity. So the matter rested, apparently quiet, until the recent outbreak. That the fight for independence continues is demonstrated in the periodic stifling that the British apply to Egyptian politics. A few weeks ago an Egyptian cabinet resigned, unable to obtain its ends against British opposition. Today the same problem confronts the present government. Each successive ministry wants but one thing--Egyptian freedom...