Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick B. Boyden '45, chairman of the labor committee of the Harvard Student Union, said last night that the students will go from door to door among the workers' homes in an effort to acquaint them with the union and its advantages...
Best of the lot is Spring Offensive, a two-reeler designed to acquaint the British countryside with the reasons for and methods of plowing under 10% of the nation's grassland for food crops. It is an almost perfect example of the high technical quality and emotional drive of the artfully made documentary...
Model Wife (Universal). Year ago the American Mothers Society of New York decided that blonde, bumpy Joan Blondell was America's Most Glamorous Mother. This year they reaffirmed their decision, commissioned a sculptor to preserve Mother Blondell in bronze. This was Universal's cue to acquaint cinemagoers with the marital charms of their beglamored star...
...more advanced training is intended for those who have had at least six months' experience and are interested in going further. Designed to acquaint the volunteers with the more complicated phases of social service work, such as juvenile delinquency and case work, the course will be offered either under the separate agencies or by combined leaders of several, and will probably consist of field study and lectures, combined. According to present plans, it will start in the latter part of March and last about six weeks...
This new plan, although it is not nearly as comprehensive as that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...