Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
Another example of getting something in return would be to work out our entire raw materials program as a part of our foreign policy. It is well known that we are short of many very important commodities. In formulating our new foreign policy we should seek to obtain the raw materials which we need and do not possess ourselves. This would be helpful to us and to the world and would be a self-respecting solution of several serious problems at one and the same time...
...majority of them concerning the war. These amputees were not geniuses undiscovered. But through the understanding and encouragement of their professor, Don Wolfe--one of those men whose work is not his job but his life--these accounts became so telling in their moving directness that Wolfe decided to obtain the publication of these stories. Deciding at the outset that all profits would go to the disabled authors, he felt more and more impelled at each defeat to continue in his attempt. The daily despairs of the novice in the field were lessened by the agreement of a small publishing...
Wives and daughters of Boston's more adept coupon clippers and a smattering of almost shamefaced Harvardmen gathered amidst the lime-colored elegance of the Copley Plaza Oval Room early this week to partake of creamed chicken and the spinach that if fashion. In an effort to obtain a masculine insight on feminine fashions the management successively selected, wined, dined, and embarrassed an all-male jury...
Undergraduates who are not degree candidates can obtain one standing room ticket apiece it was disclosed. They will be subject to the same application procedure and deadline. All applicants must call for their tickets in person at University Hall between 2 and 5 o'clock Tuesday or 9 and 5 o'clock Wednesday of the week of the ceremony...