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Word: obtainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While it has been evident that increasing sunspot activity has been accompanied in general with a decrease in intensity of radio signal strengths received, exceptions occur from time to time due, in part, to atmospheric and possible meterological changes. It has furthermore been possible to obtain a degree of correlation between barometric gradients and the intensity of reception received. It is by taking moving averages of several days data that the sunspot intensity correlation becomes markedly apparent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMER EXPLAINS RADIO EVIL | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will solve the mystery of Bay State polities? Perhaps it will be Mayor Gillis of Newburyport in a few years. Certainly public opinion, which Lord Bryce considered, the great force in American public life, does not seem to obtain results in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONE SO DEAF | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...students who plan to leave the general vicinity of Cambridge during the Christmas holidays must return all books to the College Library before leaving. Those students who desire to take books away with them must obtain permission at the Delivery Desk, before leaving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS MUST BE RETURNED TO LIBRARY BEFORE VACATION | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...requested to hand them in to the student in their entry who is collecting for the P. B. H. These clothes are given to needy students in the college and to various settlement houses in Cambridge. If any student cannot find the collector in his entry he can obtain the information by calling the Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Clothes Drive Starts | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English or Dutch gin as a favorite cocktail ingredient. Today one may step up to any smart bar and obtain deft action by exclaiming "A Ponce!" Strangely enough Jean Hennessy swears that he has never tasted one. Wet by profession, he is socially and privately dry. In 1910 he became a Deputy, in 1924 Ambassador to Switzerland and recently Minister of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dry World? | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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