Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England," she continued, "tried to muzzle birth control by prosecuting the spread of its knowledge under the obscenity laws. But the famous trial of Mrs. Besant showed that it was legal for any Englishman to obtain contraceptive information, and since that time birth control has been steadily increasing, with clinics throughout the country to disseminate knowledge...
...each to put up a ditch near the disputed line leaving the undecided area between the two: An airport of 3,200 acres is now being laid out near Mt. Vernon and the two ditches run, side by side, across the whole area. The government is trying to obtain 600 acres out of this site for a national public airport...
Unfortunately there lurks in the back ground the alarming possibility of civil service regulation. A Democratic Senator has proposed the idea. Of course there is really little danger, particularly because administration officials, it is said, hope to obtain enumerators of "a very high standard of intelligence," such as members of women's clubs, who will volunteer for the work "as a patriotic duty." Obviously such people could be persuaded to serve only by a system of unrestricted appointment. So that whatever one may think in comparing the different reasons offered the conclusion in high circles is unanimously for high-minded...
...planned or altered with this underlying intellectual purpose in mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well may doubt if the stubbornly dissimilar social elements of which Harvard is composed can be fused even in an especially prepared crucible...
...respectable Frenchman may obtain such a license by applying to the police, but loses his citizenship for the period that the license is valid...