acquirement

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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

"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

Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not one in a thousand approach it; not one in ten thousand attain to it, or, more properly speaking, possess it—for it is a thing of possession, rather than of acquirement.

From Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)

Scarcely less marked was the opposition of the United States to any scheme for the acquirement of Cuba by any of the American republics.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher