Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what can Harvard students do for peace? In the first place we want to know what we're talking about, what we mean by familiar terms (such as "sanctions"), what some of the economic and psychological factors in the subject are, and so forth. Study groups are tackling the problems of the League of Nations, the World Court, and America's neutrality policy; this year with the advantage of assistance from faculty members and outside authorities. The society will likewise sponsor, from time to time, talks by well-known speakers on specific questions of peace and war. And finally...
While The Lords of Creation contains much material that readers of John T. Flynn (God's Gold), Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) and Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan) will find familiar, it assembles this scattered material in readable fashion but employs it to point no novel or daring conclusion...
Realizing that under the proper circumstances the inevitable can be forced to precede the usual formalities, Mrs. Nordoff tricks Cecilia into believing that the way to the alter lies through the bed. Nordoff scores a Phyrric victory and is presently back in his wife's arms. All this familiar activity may or may not prove the assertion of the title, but it is performed to the tune of skillful and fresh dialogue by a company of thespians whose ability justifies their prominence...
...first name is Norman and his last name is Norman and a C stands between them. By trade he is a Manhattan jeweler. Few people outside of Maiden Lane had heard of Norman C. Norman until the coming of the New Deal. By last week, however, he was familiar to business newsreaders, to corporate executives, to bankers and to the Administration as a small stockholder in 50 corporations who could be relied upon to make headlines wherever he went...
...concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords and Masters is that in all parts of the world individuals about whom little is known are absorbed in intrigues whose exact character cannot be determined, against persons equally enigmatic. Readers who remain to the end are likely to experience the familiar side-show emotion of feeling that the freaks, madmen and monsters presented have scarcely measured up to the claims made for them...