Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition invariably proves to be a process of absorption. Knowledge is gained unconsciously, and in the end one finds oneself well equipped to enter the business world with a feeling of confidence. There is perhaps no better way in college for one to obtain this same feeling than by entering such a competition as the Business Board offers...
Using the practical political method of applying pressure on legislators to obtain their demands, the Teachers' Union and the Society for the Freedom of Teaching have secured the signatures of 40 merchants in the Harvard Square vicinity favoring the repeal of the Oath...
...indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House of Commons destroyed all that is summed up by the old saw, "An Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police may on mere "suspicion" obtain a High Court justice's order to burst into private homes and ransack them for "treasonable literature." Merely to "possess" such literature (as distinguished from writing, publishing or showing it to anyone who might be "treasonably seduced") is made a crime...
...emergency is likely to arise. His experiments, on the other hand, endanger no one, as they are carried out in the safe confines of a laboratory. A system of point rating could easily be devised, so that prospective chauffeurs and truck drivers would find it difficult to obtain positions unless they had proved themselves experienced...
Students may obtain tickets by the presentation of their bursar's cards at Hunt Hall on Tuesday or Wednesday between 9 and 5 o'clock. Performances will be given at 1.40, 4, 6.30, and 8.30 o'clock on both days...