Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris about two years ago by J. A. Haeseler, a director of the University Film Foundation, when filming pictures in Europe. He was immediately attracted by the novel picture, but was forced to follow the film from city to city, and even back to New York before he could obtain the American rights to the film...
...Harvard Seismograph Station. The quake occurred about 20 minutes before the first waves reached Cambridge, having come from a location which is a little over 200 miles short of half way round the globe from here. The quake was of a kind that makes definite computations difficult to obtain...
...Under the rules, no method of getting it out was possible except: 1) to have the committee formally report it out, or 2) to have the 218 Representatives sign a petition forcing it to the House floor. Mr. Patman circulated such a petition, failed by some 75 signatures to obtain his end. Many a Congressman who disapproved of the bill, afraid of the veterans' vote if he had to oppose it, was glad the committeemen had held it inactive. Chief grounds for committee's inaction: lack of American Legion support...
...continually bringing to light improved methods. A good teacher cannot afford to allow himself to get into a rut, but must keep abreast of the times. This is best done by taking courses in a university where the professors in the department have been able through careful research to obtain a knowledge of the best methods...
...would be absurd to hold up this failure as proof of disability in the faculty. The test was general and was in this case given to men who have spent their lives specializing in some particular subject, the study of which has naturally made it impossible for them to obtain a more than average general-knowledge. The mere fact that a college student was capable of equaling many of the professors proves little or nothing. It is true that some of the instructors laid themselves open to attack in trying to evade answering the test, but this is only...