Word: acquaintences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council wants to be sure that the undergraduate students have a good opportunity to acquaint themselves with the contents of the reports," Marquand said...
Freshmen and their prefects said they don't think the drinking nix will hurt the program. "I don't think the new policy will hurt the freshmen prefect program at all," said Benjamin Waldman '89 of Pennypacker Hall. "The prefects' function is to acquaint us to life at Harvard and with Boston. The social aspect of the program wasn't a big deal...
...voyage was one of several orientation outings sponsored by the Freshman Dean's Office this week to acquaint Harvard's greenest students with their urban surroundings. After a Sunday night lecture about how to look at a city and what to take advantage of, about 500 freshmen boarded boats the next day for a tour of Boston Harbor and nearby Georges Island, according to Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young...
Immigrants also acquaint Americans with their foods by cooking for them. Food service is traditionally an entry-level job, requiring few skills and almost no English. Starting as dishwashers, busboys and street food vendors, newcomers gradually manage to save enough money to open simple restaurants. Featuring dishes that are novel and generally inexpensive, immigrants get a foothold that can lead to the sort of success enjoyed by Rocky Aoki, the Japanese tycoon behind the Benihana restaurant chain and frozen-food company...
...Raphaelites venerated those twin totems of Victorian thought: science and religion. Their objections to the popular English art of their time rested, in fact, on both. They were permeated with the belief that nature was the fingerprint of its creator and that studying it was the best way to acquaint oneself with his designs. Ruskin had inveighed against the "unhappy prettiness and sameness" of established English painting, "which cannot but be revolting to any man who has his eyes, even for a measure, open to the divinity of the immortal seal on the common features that he meets...