Word: acquaintance
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Meanwhile, at Washington's National Zoo another experiment was under way: scientists wanted to acquaint their rare golden lion tamarins with a facsimile of their natural habitat, a lowland Brazilian forest. But the coddled, zoo- happy monkeys lacked some basic skills -- how, for instance, to peel a banana. Instead, they fell out of the trees and got lost in the woods...
...selected "there ain't nothing much you can do, just grin and bear it." And although Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke went out of his way to praise nominee Sembler, his choice of words was less than stirring. Sembler "has taken great pains in recent weeks," said Hawke, "to acquaint himself with Australia...
...objectives [of Lit & Arts B are] to increase students' visual and aural perception, to give them some knowledge of the means of artistic expression, to enable them to judge quality with discrimination and to acquaint them with a few selected masterpieces...with the greater part of each course left for dealing directly with the masterpieces themselves...
Early last year, the council representatives stepped up their efforts to bring the graduate students together. The GAPSC organized social functions, service projects and intramural sports to acquaint graduate students with one another...
Since 1985 I have used this column to tell you the story behind the stories in TIME and to acquaint you with the people who produce the world's pre- eminent newsmagazine. Beginning next week, I will bequeath this responsibility to Robert L. Miller, TIME's new publisher, and his signature will take the place of mine at the bottom of this weekly letter...