Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Communists talk about increasing trade, they are as often concerned with the political effect of their words as with any goods they may want to buy." Added a Ruhr industrialist: "The demand for Russian caviar is not unlimited in Germany, and it is not always easy to obtain other goods for which we might have better...
Chamber music selections from the thirteenth century to the present will be performed at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. This concert is open without charge to registered Harvard and M.I.T. Summer School students who obtain passes at Room 1 in Grays Hall...
...American Heritage, Rene Kuhn Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley...
Typing Trouble. In Paris the junta's resolution was seen for what it was: open defiance of De Gaulle's authority. Deliberately misinterpreting De Gaulle's speeches, the junta expressed its delight "at having been able to obtain the promise of total integration of Algeria into Metropolitan France." In an excess of arrogance, the resolution went on to demand "the disappearance" of political parties in France, and the formation of "a genuine government of public safety...
With confidence between you and the republican people thus restored, it will be possible for you to obtain from the responsible men of the Republic quick agreement and loyal cooperation to achieve with full powers a limited program in a limited time...