Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Society, who, with the assistance of the Class officers, is in charge of the proposal, will assume entire responsibility for raising the funds necessary to obtain the Cup. A canvass of each Freshman dormitory will be held on Friday evening by volunteers from the Memorial Society. They will hold a meeting Monday evening, May 14, at 7.30 o'clock, in the Union to discuss further plans for the gift. An officer of the society pointed out last night that this entire scheme depended on Mr. Lowes' approval...
...Clark Grew went ambling around himself. Harvardman, socialite, longtime Ambassador to Turkey with two daughters married into the service, Ambassador Grew is generally considered the ablest of U. S. career diplomats. He remained closeted for a long time with Foreign Minister Koki Hirota last week in an effort to obtain an official text of the statement on Chinese policy with which Japan startled the Western world fortnight...
...past two decades there has been a steadily growing interest in the literary efforts of American authors. Starting here at Harvard, a movement to obtain a sympathetic appreciation for American literature has spread to every part of this country. Now, into this fight to gain recognition for the literary products of the American continent, comes a new development: the study of the literature of the Spanish-American nations beyond our southern border...
Only less sensational than the Howes testimony was the testimony that the "friendly cooperation" of Mark L. Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...experiment so far has yielded results which are only accurate to within about five per cent. To obtain greater precision, Professor Black explained, the apparatus could not be nearly as suitable for demonstration to students. The most important part of the apparatus is the rotating mirror, which is driven by compressed air at the rate of 120 revolutions per second. Professor Black believes he will be able to raise this to one or three times that figure and there by obtain still more accurate results...