Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morgan's Bark. Clark, born on Staten Island, got into money finding at 16, when he persuaded a Brooklyn builder to give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that J. P. Morgan was paying 6% on some mortgaged loft buildings in lower Manhattan, Clark, 17, wrote Morgan that he could save him money by refinancing, was invited to Morgan's office. When he arrived, Morgan barked: "What s.o.b. sent for you?'' Replied Clark...
...19th century Japan were called Ukiyo-e, meaning "Picture of the Passing World." They were just that: pictures of solemn actors, sprightly geishas, idyllic landscapes. Japan's modern wood-printers turned to semiabstract compositions, employ many techniques known to their forerunners; e.g., they often wet their paper to obtain a certain texture, but also experiment with leaves, string, the heel of a shoe to get special effects with an ingenuity Western printmakers have not displayed...
...Washington and testified before the committee. Their amendment would have rendered H.R. 2725 useless for the prohibition of the airborne and mechanized operations. Also, the pictures that I used to document my evidence were taken by Gus Bundy, a local photographer, who went along on an actual roundup to obtain them...
When each D.J. showed up, RCA Victor handed him $1,000,000 in "play money," but the scrip called for solid value. The D.J.s were supposed to increase their holdings by gambling and by making frequent trips to the company's "Hospitality Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments plus 5,000 "dollars" for every visit. On Memorial Day, in exchange for the play money, RCA Victor auctioned off a stereo set, a color TV set, 500 real dollars worth of clothes, a trip for two to Europe, and a Studebaker Lark to the highest bidders-and the bidders...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, praised the decision to start working drawings. "We have been waiting 24 years to obtain adequate facilities for the University...