Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mohammed; the status of an independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None of the at present outstanding Mohammedan potentates possesses all three qualifications. 4) Should one or more qualifications be waived, the following potentates might well precipitate innumerable struggles in an effort to obtain the Califate: King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak, President Mustafa Kemal of Turkey, Shah Reza of Persia, the Aga Kahn of Bombay, the Sultan of Morocco, King Abdulla of Transjordania, Imam Yahya of Yemen, the Idrisi of Asir, Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz, Sheik Achmet...
...Corps of the Officers' Reserve. Last June the Guggenheim School graduated nine men. This year it enrolls 15. The prospect of practical experience at Government fields is expected to multiply the enrollment by leaps and bounds. Attention turned to four other universities to see how soon they would obtain, or the War Department offer, similar official units to complement their schools of aviation -Georgia Tech and the Universities of California. Illinois, Washington...
...with them. Now, however, they have offered to do so, with reservations, and in a week's time, they will have to concede to the strikers' demands. This strike is not a spasmodic revolt; it is a long, determined struggle on the part of about 1600 textile workers to obtain a decent American standard of living, a 48-hour week, and improved working conditions...
...attach that name to the criticisms of over emphasis on indifference, centers on the laisser faire policy of certain undergraduates and alumni toward men now enlisted in the preparatory schools. There is evidently a feeling that more effort on the part of the Associated Clubs might help Harvard to obtain a more representative group of students...
...directors; if, having "scotched" this reptilian idea in 1924, they were going to sit by and permit "the right of protest" to be overridden in 1926; if they were going to permit Publisher Gannett to be "given a franchise for nothing that many other members have spent fortunes to obtain?" Scribe Brisbane, furthermore, denied that there had been any complaints against Publisher Hearst's conduct as an A. P. member at Rochester...