Word: acquaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women from this country to form valuable contacts and lasting friendships with the youth of foreign nations, at the same time offering them opportunities of European travel at a nominal cost; secondly, to open up to them linguistic and cultural opportunities unknown in America; and thirdly, to acquaint them with the varied forms of outdoor life on the rivers and mountains of Europe. From all points of view Mr. Watt's efforts have, in past years, met with vast success...
...every drunkard knows, cold milk soothes seething stomachs. Last summer the State of New York set out to acquaint novice tipplers with this useful fact. In 1933 the State Legislature had laid a tax of 1? per cwt. on milk, half the proceeds to go for an advertising campaign designed to up milk consumption. The 1934 campaign, conducted by the State Department of Health, was a model of dignified propriety, cost $400,000, upped milk consumption not a quart. Last July the job was turned over to the State Department of Agriculture & Markets, which promptly hired a professional advertising agency...
...news occupied with the fact that PBH is free from the commuter problem for the first time in several years, indicates that the new administration contemplates important changes in its program. It is likely that PBH will not only consolidate its many activities but will make an effort, to acquaint the public more thoroughly with their nature...
Dramatic moment of the week's hearings came when Tom Mooney, the one-time molder who claims he was framed by "the bosses" for agitating a streetcar strike, expounded his social views from the stand. Having had plenty of time since 1916 to acquaint himself with Marxian phraseology, he spoke easily of ''exploiting the workers" "working class struggle. "the historic objective." "I am a social revolutionist," he proudly declared, "one who believes all the wealth of the world should be socialized. ... I have always been in favor of the I. W. W. The President of the United States believes...
...sides, to whom he gave general orders leaving the tactics of their execution to the commanders in the field. Officers of every company had strict orders to tell all men under their command exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift...