Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, at the present time, a prospective open-air orator must obtain a permit before he can speak. Usually such requests are granted; it is always possible, however, to prevent speeches on undesirable subjects by refusing the necessary authorization. Limitations which have been laid down in this way have served only to drive the agitators to secret meetings, where by posing as martyrs, they have been able to exert a far more dangerous influence than they could by speaking in the open...
These changes offer a freedom of choice in the department which has not been possible before and permits undergraduates who intend, upon graduation, to enter an engineering school, to obtain preparation fitting them for the immediate pursuit of professional studies in any of the common branches of engineering...
...electric victrola has been installed in a large furnished room in the D entry, and House members who desire to do so may obtain the key to the room at the McKinlock Hall library desk. Slips must be signed before records can be taken from the library for use either in the music room or in students' own rooms. It is planned to have the library of scores coincide as closely as possible with the collection of records so that music lovers may follow the notes with their eyes as well as their ears. The latest additions from the special...
...audience is the somewhat greasy Ramon Novarro, who, in his Russian uniform, looks like a well-trained barber's assistant at any conceivable Ritz. He falls in love instantly with the glamorous danseurse, which she undeniably is, and spends the night with her. Finding it expedient to obtain some dispatches in his possession, she goes to him on the second night, gets the papers, but loses her heart to him, although how she can is inconceivable. Then follows a great deal of melodrama, little of which is convincing. Her lover meets with an accident which leaves him blind. When...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book...