Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Watson expects his machine to be used in railroad trains, airplanes, battleships. Because the Watsongraph can be adjusted so that eavesdroppers will obtain only nonsense syllables, he thinks that policemen will find it useful. It promises to be cheaper than the teletype machines now widely in use, which require costly leased wires. But it will be limited according to the availability of radio wavelengths...
Instituted by Morris Gray '77 to stimuate interest in recent poetry, those talks are delivered several times yearly to an invited audience by speakers entirely independent of the Harvard faculty. Any student that wishes to attend the talk may obtain an invitation from G. P. Winship '93, at Widener...
...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...
...that one Liston Schooley, like Potter a city official ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper in "The Statesman's Window"), was about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook would have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns...
...Harvard team will meet the Cincinnati Riding Club at the Riding Club at 8 o'clock tomorrow and will play the Cleveland Cavalry team at the Equestrium there Sunday. They will not take their own ponies with them as at West Point, but will obtain mounts in Cincinnati and Cleveland...