Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman football has broken all previous squad records this year. Over 200 men reported for practice and as a result a large group of those who had signed up were unable to obtain equipment...
...Prime Minister's anxiety was acute because he had not yet been able to obtain from the small "centre" parties and the Socialist party (largest) any assurance that these would stand together in a coalition, supporting either Herr Briining's or some other moderate cabinet against the Fascist Right and Communist Left?two extremes quite capable of voting together to oust a government which pleased neither...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
...happiest men today, says Russell, are the scientists. "Many of the most eminent of them are emotionally simple, and obtain from their work a satisfaction so profound that they can derive pleasure from eating, and even marrying." Russell thinks happiness is not a gift received but a conquest to be won. If you want to be happy you must work for it, acquire zest, congenial work, impersonal interests, freedom from worry, resignation. "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest...
...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. ?PubIished Sept...