Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, Behrman is working on a long profile of Beerbohm for the New Yorker and attempting to raise enough money for Houghton Library to obtain the 25-year correspondence between the "incomparable Max" and Frederick Turner (it was Turner who said, when the dying Oscar Wilde told him of dreaming of supping with the dead, "I'm sure, Oscar, you were the life and soul of the party."). The New Yorker series on Beerbohm is likely to grow into a book, as did The Worcester Account (on which The Cold Wind and the Warm is based) and Duveen...
Graduate students will serve as advisers to the delegations. "Among these advisers we hope to obtain several foreign students who can explain the intricacies of their own country's foreign policy," Phillips noted...
Conant's report, based on visits to 55 schools in several states, called for consolidation of scattered school districts to obtain wider curricula, better teaching, and better facilities. He defined the ideal size of a "comprehensive school" as 500 to 600 students...
...supporters of the notification order, Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 said he did not favor a "road block" which would hamper Harvard's legitmate effort to buy the land. He asserted that the University "has started an active real estate market here," al- though it might have attempted to obtain the land through private negotiations...
...anonymity's sake, Hume changed his name legally to Brown, thus entitling him to obtain a bona fide passport in that name. But one of anything is scarcely enough for a man like Hume: he soon had a second passport made out to "John Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi...