Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is practically no drinking among women but they smoke profusely. Although surprisingly good Russian cigarettes can be purchased with foreign money, the Russians themselves cannot get good tobacco with their rubles and are delighted to obtain American cigarettes. Their unusual fondness for Camels makes it seem at first that here is a people whose choice among the brands of American cigarettes is based on something more substantial than advertising slogans and endorsements from Hollywood. French discovered, however, that it is really the picture of the camel, not any inherent superiority, which fascinates them...
...Freshman Tea Dance to be held in the Union after the Harvard Yale football game on November 21 from 5 to 7 o'clock advanced last night with the announcement by R.R. Borden, Jr. (Wigglesworth), dance chairman, of his complete committee and the permission for first year men to obtain tickets for Yale freshmen...
...obtain all the usual dictatorial power (previously held by such men as King Alfonso and Primo de Rivera), President Azana circulated rumors among the Deputies that a plot had been discovered by his Government "to end the Spanish Republic tomorrow morning." On the Assembly platform, however, the President's jaw worked thus...
After being vested with his new powers, Dictator Azana ominously declared: "We shall allow Catholics to hold all the meetings they desire . . . so long as they obtain the Government's permission first...
Students who are licensed in the same state that their car is registered, do not need to obtain a Massachusetts drivers' license, and a further provision in the law allows persons from the states listed below to drive Massachusetts registered cars on their foreign licenses...