Word: acquaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This meet, the Invitation Intercollegiate at Lydonville, Vermont, is itself primarily a practice meet designed to acquaint the Crimson skiers with the Lydonville course where the Eastern Divisional Championship will be held in February...
After a month of studies each trainee takes a four-week job, selected to acquaint her with unskilled work in some commercial observation. These jobs have included scrubbing floors in a hospital, lugging lumber about in a door factory in Pittsburgh, putting heels on rubber boots, and packing candy at Brigham...
Anyone who thinks he may want to concentrate in Germanic Languages and Literature should acquaint himself with some German literature before he makes the plunge. Much of it is better studied than genuinely enjoyed by modern readers...
...begin a lecture and demonstration tour that will take him to 15 cities in the U.S. and Canada. He was Bernard Leach, 63, a spare, tweedy, Hong Kong-born English man who described himself as "a sort of courier between East & West." Leach was certainly well equipped to acquaint U.S. potters with oriental standards and tricks of their trade. He had studied painting in London, gone to To kyo at 21 to teach it. "I had no idea of taking up pottery," he recalls, "but in Japan I fell in with people who had. I chased around until...
...program of the Council and the semi-public organizations could be related more effectively by an administrative vice-president of the Council. He would consult with these groups on matters of policy or budget to be brought before the Council, and could acquaint Council members in advance of any problems of these organizations to be brought to the Council floor...