Word: acquaintances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletics or various other of the amentities of college life. As a result they have become men apart with little or nothing in common with the other members of the college. They know the students who work near them during the day but only with great effort may they acquaint themselves with the life of the college as a whole or with men of different temperaments and interests...
Since October the Office of the Secretary to the University for Information, which is the Harvard publicity office, has been in my charge. The direction of this office is in the hands of the Regent of the University. It is the practice of the University to acquaint this office with University plans and policies as soon as they are determined...
Every soldier knows the strategic reasons why the Empire "must" keep Palestine, but the mission of the Seventh Dominion League will be to acquaint civilians with the business reasons. The best of these may be summed up in an arresting name - Pinchas Rutenberg...
...Williams is true, it is not the fault of those who are ignorant, but of those who refuse to alleviate this ignorance, that the House plan, shrouded in suspicious darkness, has met with more opposition than the interview would lead one to believe. It was a serious mistake to acquaint undergraduates and graduates with such a momentous innovation by means of sensational rumors and fictitious scoops prompted by newspaper rivalry. It is not too late to instruct more thoroughly those interested in the plan and its purpose...
...five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties one of the Group of Six in Paris, blustering fellows, so many thought, organized to acquaint the public with their music. Now Honegger remains supreme of the Six. His wife. Pianist Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger, plays his compositions, last week played with him his delectable Concertino. Pacific 231 he now calls Boom! Boom! Rugby, a sound picture of a football match, teems with driving conflict. It takes...