Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, the world famed specialist in mind diseases, says: "I am familiar with various systems for improving the mind, including, among others, those of Feinaigle, Gourand and Dr. Pick, and I have recently become acquainted with the system in all its details and applications taught by Prof. Loisette. I am therefore enabled to state that his is, in all its essential features, entirely original; that its principles and methods are different from all others, and that it presents no material analogies to that of any other system...
...familiar with the American game of football as played in our colleges may yet be entirely unacquainted with the English association game, so great is the fundamental difference between...
...yard and its example was followed by Ninety to some extent. We do not expect the custom violated by Ninety one. The 'Varsity Glee Club have already given a number of concerts in the yard, and more are promised in the near future. The old songs, which are so familiar to most of us and which are for that reason the more appreciated, never sound better than when sung on the steps of Matthews in the early evening. That the efforts of our musical organizations are valued is shown by the large numbers of men who gather to listen...
...that looseness so common in short stories which allows him to see the end when he has scarcely begun. The bits of description are delicate, and the treatment is, in the main, original. The writer shows power of observation particularly in the character of May Vernon. One who is familiar with a country church and its ways will be keenly interested in the story of "The Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country churches, however, must...
...than they are. Posters for the Trinity game were not out until about four o'clock Friday afternoon, and the consequence was that some men who did not remember the schedule supposed there was to be no game Saturday and for that reason made other engagements. Others, who were familiar with the schedule, supposed that as the game was not announced it had been declared off, and at least one person was put in a disagreeable position by inviting friends to the game and promising to send word Friday morning as to whether play would begin at half past...