Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absinthe at its full pre-War strength of 66% alcohol or perhaps go further and legalize what used to be called Swiss absinthe (80%). According to inspired reports, "The Government feels that by monopolizing the sale and manufacture of absinthe they can keep consumption within moderate limits and yet obtain a large revenue...
This fellowship program affords opportunity for talented boys of limited means who would otherwise find it difficult to obtain a college education. The selection was based on considerations of character, originality, and initiative, as well as school records, and the results of the scholastic aptitude tests and any other college board examinations that may have been taken...
Next day Premier Ismet drove to Izmid, seized a trowel, laid the cornerstone of a paper factory designed to produce 35 tons of newsprint per day, or almost one-half of Turkey's present consumption. "Most of the raw materials," cried General Ismet, "we shall obtain locally, such as wood pulp, kaolin, resin and alum...
...city hospital to ask if it were true that a patient had recently been put to death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry-and with perhaps as little tact-I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem...
...angrier grew Benito Mussolini last week as that testy old diplomatic hornet from France, M. Louis Barthou, zipped around the Balkans. It is II Duce's policy to keep Austria and Hungary in hopeful dependence upon Italy- hoping that Rome will give both countries economic assistance and help obtain revision of the post-War treaties which brand them as beaten nations cramped within reduced frontiers. Everywhere Foreign Minister Barthou went he declared that France will block any such revision. He scoffed, by implication, at Italy's power to bring an altered settlement or substantial economic assistance. In Rome...