Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain the services of some of the great scientific experts on the Faculty who are not sufficiently interested to teach a survey course but who might be extremely interested in presenting their particular specialty to the non-scientist...
...pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department "a small assortment" of day-old bread and cakes for distribution to welfare cases, only "seven arrived to obtain some of the free fare." Next day, said the paper, "16 clients appeared after being invited by telephone." Snapped the Journal: "If bread lines are established, we will...
...money he had stolen, drew a check for that amount on the school district's tax fund by forging the names of the school board's president, secretary and treasurer, then revolved the check back into the high school fund. He also forged school-board notes to obtain bank loans, once for as much as $60,000. When the bank statement came in each month, he made a few changes, removed the forged, unnumbered checks as if they had never existed. His records seemed invariably in order, and the board thought, not entirely without reason, that good...
Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...
However, the city must first obtain state permission for the new traffic sign. This will involve a special city traffic count at the corner. The state will check the survey before granting permission for the sign. Tierney refused to speculate how long this process would take...