Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still more interesting is the fact that a correspondent with the known prestige of Miss Thompson seemingly could not obtain interviews with the high officials of the Soviet State, whereas Publicist Lee appears to have carried Rockefeller or perhaps Harriman credentials which opened every door except that of Comrade Josef Stalin, the dour, seclusive Soviet Dictator who is never interviewed...
Fulminating against the twelve-year term, General Groener cried: "It is inhuman! Our young men enter the army enthusiastically, but after two or three years many begin to get restless under the necessarily strict discipline. Being unable to obtain a discharge the men become morose and despondent, with the result that some end their lives in fits of insanity...
...most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...
...University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...people was the most marked evidence produced in last night's debate in the Union. Thirty-five undergraduates were present at the close of the discussion to vote in favor of the proposal, action upon which has been temporarily postponed by the Corporation. The later body had hoped to obtain a fairly definite idea of undergraduate opinion on the question. The subject of the debate seemed likely to attract a large interest; two years ago, the question of football overemphasis drew a thousand students to the Union, a majority of whom agreed that the undue importance on the sport should...