Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being a game, must go on according to the rules. To their Embassy in Berlin the imperturbable British sent instructions to ask the German Government whether Adolf Hitler's invitation to Sir John Simon still stood; whether, assuming that it stood, the German Government remained anxious to obtain by bargain what they had purported to seize; whether, in effect, the Nazis are mad dogs or gentlemanly players of a gentleman's game...
...peppered Indian potentates with cablegrams urging them to "Stand firm against the Bill!" Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support of the princes...
...student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths and he was able to obtain vital statistics concerning newcomers who joined the colony late in its history. There is a preponderance of European inheritance over the Tahitian and more occidental features are discernible than those of the South Sea native, but in appearance the islanders range through all gradations between European and Tahitian. No pure types of either remain...
...French Talking Films Committee at the Geographical Institute on Friday and Saturday afternoons. There will be four shows each day, starting at 1.40, 4, 6.30, and 8.50 o'clock respectively at the Robinson Hall Annex next to Phillips Brooks. On presentation of their bursar's cards Harvard students may obtain free tickets at Robinson Hall Annex...
...report was confidential, and the oral part was for the ears of Chester Davis alone. The United Press said: "Mrs. Myers, it was understood, uncovered contract violations which caused cruel hardships to part of the farm population. She found share croppers straggling along the highways, homeless and unable to obtain relief...