Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forestalled, and on the second round the Opposition votes thrown to Hitler. But suppose at the last minute the Reich declares Hitler no real citizen, strikes his name from the lists too late for the Nazis to introduce a new candidate? In such case Old Paul could very well obtain a majority on the first vote. And last week observers thought he might anyway...
...been said that courses are valuable, indeed necessary, because they enable the college to teach large numbers of students. Any other scheme means individual teaching, or tutoring, which is expensive and for which no college can easily obtain a sufficient number of skillful men. To this argument the realist who opposes courses would reply, first, that large numbers are not a necessary condition of the problem, for colleges can give up the ambition to be large; second, that the course as a teaching device is not the object of attack at all, but rather the course as a unit...
Following the precedent of "Le Trou Dans Le Mur" there will be no admission charged, but it will be necessary to limit admission since only 300 students an be accomodated at one performance in the auditorium. Tickets may be obtained at University R on presentation of a bursars card. Radcliffe students may obtain passes for admission at the same place...
...present meeting is the first to take place in Cambridge for over ten years. The University is entertaining the visiting societies and a lunch will be given Friday, February 26, at Leverett House. Members of the University who desire to obtain further information should apply at the secretary's office at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Stalin was only zigging in January 1930. He zagged three months later and turned off the blood faucets, which was not such Big News as turning them on. Last week Pravda announced that the State has obtained this year only half as much grain from the kulaks as the State planned to obtain. In Russia, where the State's every plan is sacred, such "unfulfillment" is a scandal...