Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students are obliged to obtain library numbers in the delivery room which allow them to take out three books at one time for one month periods and to use the special libraries...
...patented invention on True's desk lies a Colt revolver. True is a good shot. He practices by shooting at a cake of soap, because [he says] the consistency of soap approximates Jewish flesh." For all who care to join his September Jew shoot, True "promises he can obtain revolvers" from a Washington hardware firm at wholesale prices...
...professed blank ignorance of the whole affair. Secretary of State Hull said that all he knew about the matter was what he had read in the newspapers. Purred Navy Minister Osami Nagano in Tokyo: "In America, as in other countries, there are a few worthless individuals who try to obtain money from foreigners for supposedly valuable secret information, but we can't believe any Japanese officer attempted to use such persons...
...pastors of souls will undertake to obtain each year from their people a pledge similar to the one . . . given by their American brothers in which they promised to stay away from motion-picture plays which were offensive...
...sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with his drawing. Etcher Young makes his own etching instruments from rattail files and dentists' drills, finest steel he can obtain...