Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer has carefully refrained from giving away any more of the plot than is strictly necessary to establish the atmosphere of what is, after all, a very superior mystery play. This is a tough week, generally speaking, and one should be grateful for all the dramatic entertainment one can obtain. If you happen to be temporarily bothered by academic or athletic difficulties, you certainly should not miss the Copley play. Even if you have an hour exam impending on the morrow, you will assuredly remain to the final curtain
...Intercollegiate Disarmament Council has recommended that all interested students should obtain material for the formation of sound opinion from such institutions as the following: Council of Christian Associations, Committee on Militarism in Education, Foreign Policy Association, and the League for Industrial Democracy...
...beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize whiskey, make it easy to obtain, and you will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound like plain speaking, but it's the truth." Before the War and Prohibition, only the cheapest and rawest of whiskey could be bought for a nickel a drink. It was freshly distilled, acrid grain alcohol, diluted...
Last week's ruling acted as a definite curb to short-selling. The previous rules had had only a slight effect, were apparently made only to obtain data on short-selling, to be of use in the threatened investigations. Further proof of the Exchange's anxiety to create a proper attitude was shown by the decision last week to report volume as total "transactions" instead of the former total "sales." Amused brokers suggested it should have been changed to total "purchases," since even the most ferocious bear cannot sell unless there is a buyer...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42ND, St., New York City...