Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact overdue, and the soldiers appear to think the same. The southern part of the Republic is starving and isolated without war material. It is all over now, and those who have most admired the courage and pride of the Republic must hope only that the survivors will obtain mercy from the fascists...
...General Viscount Galway to nullify the plan on grounds of unconstitutionally. Prime Minister Savage thought that over (remembering his comfortable Parliament plurality; Laborites: 54, Conservatives: 24) and then announced: "If traders petition the Governor-General on the ground that we have no authority to control trade, we will soon obtain the necessary authority...
Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...
Junior Fellow J. C. Oxtoby has developed a new method which makes it necessary to stir one's coffee only once in order to obtain perfect mixing of the coffee with the cream. The mathematics by which he arrives at his new development is too complicated to go into here...
Entrants next fall will have to obtain Honors, or 505, in the English College Board to be exempted from English A. The old requirement was a mark of 560. It is expected that the special exemption English examination given in September for those admitted without College Boards will be correspondingly stiffened...