Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly a man present knew whether he should again look on the old familiar faces of his colleagues or, if so, under what circumstances. By Feb. 1, the Federal Reserve System is to be reconstituted under the Banking Act of 1935. The Governors of the twelve Reserve Banks may hold their posts under the new title of "President" if re-elected by their respective directors. The Open Market Committee will cease to be an advisory body, will acquire genuine authority over the Federal Reserve System's buying & selling of government and other paper. But on the committee, representation...
Last week a new era was commencing inside the old opera house. Rarely had there been such bustling preparation. The orchestra rehearsed diligently, although the music was all familiar. The chorus chanted in German, French. Italian. Individual singers worked with conductors and stage directors. Pretty young ballerinas went through their paces hour after hour under the determined direction of George Balanchine, new maître de ballet...
...familiar joke about the woman who went through so many operations that she asked for a zipper closure last week seemed about to become a reality. A Chicago man was having his abdomen kept open for weeks to permit surgeons gradually to cauterize a cancer in his stomach. Surgeons sewed the edges of the slit stomach to the edges of the slit abdomen. Then they fastened a section of zipper along each edge of the compound slit by means of adhesive tape. Now to close the abdominal hole until time for the next cauterization, the operator simply pulls the zipper...
...play will be the feature of a meeting of the Spanish Club in Winthrop House Senior Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight. "Secretico de Confession," originally written in the Aragonese dialect by Signores Serefin y Joaquin-Quintero has been translated into the more familiar Castilian by Erwin Jaffe 3G. Coached by Jaffe, Gilbert Fraunhar '38, Therese Nadean, Earle S. Randall 3G, and Marjorie Wood, Radcliffe '38 will present the entrenice...
...their existence. Despite this tendency to linger over the elementary aspects of a writer's career, to pass over bitter political and cultural disputes, Prophets and Poets is an informative and handy book, contains occasional insights of the sort that reveal the freshness of a foreign approach to familiar material...