Word: acquaintanceship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News competition offers an exceptionally good field to those who wish to accomplish the threefold purpose of improving their writing, learning something of journalistic methods and the mechanics of the composition of a newspaper, and of widening their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
Recently the college has indirectly suggested to the Advisers that they might cat more frequently with their advisee in order to become acquainted with them, a suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities...
Poet Jeffers, though gentle (he has never killed an animal) is not shy; though not shy he is not sociable, seeks neither the companionship of old friends nor acquaintanceship with new. Towards local Californians. as toward the human species as a whole, he is reserved, cold...
Spencer, a personal acquaintance of Eliot's, graduated from Princeton in 1923, after which he went to Cambridge University, where he took his English B.A. in 1925. While in England he had exceptional opportunities for acquaintanceship with the younger literary figures. Then the coming speaker did graduate work at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. here in 1928. Last fall Spencer edited "A Garland for John Denne", published by the University Press, for which Eliot wrote a preface...