Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion came as an answer to the need often expressed by former students for a short course which would acquaint them with the latest developments in business and give them opportunity for the discussion of current problems...
Southwest from Washington traveled Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. He departed for Cimarron, N. Mex., where Waite Phillips, Tulsa, (Okla.) oilman has a 150,000-acre ranch. Vacationing later than the President, the Vice President had opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators-a powerful presentation...
...purpose of this dinner to foster better relations among foreign students and to help acquaint them with American business life...
With practically 100,000,000 life insurance policies in force in the U. S., Arthur C. Dollarhide, independent actuary, Cleveland, decided that the policy holders would want insurance instruction. So he wrote a book. (Facts and Fallacies of Life Insurance, $10) that purports "to so acquaint the reader with the principles of life insurance and various policy forms, their provisions and conditions, and desirability or lack of it, that he will be enabled to wisely choose the form of any new policy that he may purchase, effect such desirable readjustments of his present life insurance holdings as may be possible...
...have occurred to "Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...