Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey statute of limitations says suit for damages must be brought within two years after the inception of disease. But, for four years, these girls were unaware of the disease eating its way into their bones. Last month the case was presented before the Court of Chancery* to obtain a ruling on whether the statute applies to a disease which did not manifest itself until years after its inception. The hearing was set for September, but because of the rapid progress of the disease, and the destitute condition of the women, the case is being tried by the Essex County...
...Voted,. . . . to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands," ran in part the vote upon the Stadium question which the Corporation passed last Monday. This excerpt from the resolution brings forcibly to mind a realization of the architectural monopoly long in existance at Harvard...
...verbatim report of the vote of the Corporation passed in its meeting Monday, follows: "Voted, the Corporation being informed that the suggestion of the Overseers for movable steel stands is impracticable, that the President and Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletic be authorized to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands at the end of the end of the Stadium by reinforced concrete seats...
...regreters be that the authority of science should be to obtain a hearing for such dogmatising, yet it is unavoidable. While science was unremunerative and even hazardous, few but the truly scientific minds were attracted to its pursuit. Working patiently and slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent...
Certain newspapers, ever mindful of the glory of equality, have "viewed with alarm" the sums spent to obtain the precious audiences. Characteristically have they demanded what returns the Americans received beside the privilege of bowing in and backing out of the presence of Their Majesties a question that can only be answered by the debutante of a few years ago whom a beefeater found writing on the King's private notepaper at the King's private desk, letters which are now worth a small fortune...