Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December production, the French Talking Films Committee will present "Clinq Gentilhommes Maudits" on Thursday and Friday, December 15, and 16, at 2.30, 5.15, and 8.30 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. Any member of the University may obtain tickets upon presentation of a Bursar's card beginning Monday morning, December 12, at the Exhibition Hall, Robinson Hall Annex...
When questioned as to whether or not he thought the "Hunger Marchers" would obtain anything directly from congress at its next session, Mr. Binch said, "I do not believe that congress will grant any relief, but we will make a gesture that will have an effect on organized labor by pointing the way for them to support our demands...
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...
With the restriction that students visiting House libraries other than their own should not take the books out overnight, and that they should first obtain the written statement of their own librarian to the effect that his library is not in possession of the book in question, an exchange of library courtesies would seem a simple way of aiding in the solution of the present reading difficulties...
...more profound. A quarter of a century ago Harvard College was an institution where young men could work hard and learn much if they chose, and mostly they did so choose; but it was also a place where a certain type of young man could incredibly idle and yet obtain a degree. It is not too much to say that today an idler cannot get into Harvard, and if he did get in he could not stay in. When Mr. Lowell took office the presidents of Western State universities were saying, "At least, our students are not loafers. At least...