Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion. "If the American team goes abroad we have a reasonable chance for success. We could play in Europe during the entire spring and summer. Then our younger players, the team's bulwark in years to come, need practice under alien conditions. They had a great chance to obtain this, but it has been thrown away. Thirdly, there would have been adequate time to become accustomed to the differences in climate, food, light, and playing facilities. It would also have allowed the Americans who play on the Davis Cup team to compete in French tournaments. Francis Hunter and I consider...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars ia composed exclusively of men who have seen foreign service with American forces during time of war and hence is different from all other ex-service organizations in that we still continue to obtain new possible members and are a continuing body...
...vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
...screen has become an integral part of Japanese architecture. Used originally to prevent drafts and to obtain privacy, it soon became a part of the decorative scheme. We know that folding screens were introduced from China before the tenth century...
...interest would be easily satisfied by making the vagabonding in that course a regular affair. Furthermore there is always the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a professor's ideas on a subject, in themselves of value, and the possibility of acquaintance with subjects that a student could not otherwise obtain by merely keeping to his prescribed courses. Doing the thing that doesn't have to be done is usually an additional incentive. Finally, if one finds himself in the course of his vagabonding uninterested in something which he had hoped would prove of interest, there is nothing to prevent...