We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.
He wanted to acquire a sound reading knowledge of modern Greek.
If, for example, a knitting needle is stroked with the south pole of a magnet, the strokes being directed from the middle of the needle towards the two extremities alternately, the needle will acquire a north pole at each end and a south pole in the middle.
It may be that, just as the usages of civilized nations have slowly crystallized into international law, so there may come a time when the political principles that govern states in relation to each other will be so clearly defined and so generally accepted as to acquire something of a legal or quasi-legal character.
Races inhabiting malarious districts acquire a certain degree of resistance, no doubt through natural selection.