acquirement
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Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is generally an adopted opinion," he noted disdainfully, "that genius for the fine arts is a particular gift and not an acquirement."
From Time Magazine Archive
As there are involved knotty questions over which the lawyers will be wrangling clear up to the Supreme Court, the acquirement of so definite a result comes near to being miraculous.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only point at which it can be said to have touched that body was the process connected with the acquirement of land for public purposes by Parish Councils.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Their most important innovations, the products of serious artistic effort as well as of cleverness and ingenuity, mark the acquirement by the drama of new habits of doubtful value.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
