Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent investigations have shown that the light from the new planet is 10,000 times fainter than that of the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye. The Harvard astronomers are now trying to obtain more information concerning the planet by examining photographic plates that have been exposed in past years...
...crying, "Hush, hush," and trying to silence widespread dissatisfaction by regretting a "public discussion of affairs not directly the affairs of the public" and calling "the issues too grave for sensational discussion by open letters." This policy falls to realize that public opinion is the most effective weapon to obtain results in a situation like this where the employer follows a close-fisted policy of silence. Public opinion guides our leaders in matters ranging from international disarmament to the wearing of pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion that night-work for women was banned, that...
Perhaps the ladies might obtain the desired notoriety by informing the country's press of their precedence to Harvard's house plan. But in doing this, it might be well for them to mention incidentally that Oxford happened to adopt a system something like the house plan in the fourteenth century...
Kreuger & Toll. Another match monopoly and another bank merger were among the news items of last week in the offices of Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger. The match monopoly, obtained from the free city of Danzig, will last 35 years. To obtain it, Kreuger & Toll paid the city about $195,000. will make small annual payments, will also buy a $1,000,000 6% bond issue at 93. The bank merger was done through the Kreuger & Toll-controlled Deutsche Union Bank of Berlin, consisted of joining the Preussiche Pfandbriefbank (Kreuger & Toll-controlled) and Central Boden Kredit A. G., into the Preussiche Central...
...Your activities to obtain favors from newspaper reporters, sport writers, and sports' judges...