Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These events made a letter more than ordinarily interesting last week to Washington wiseacres familiar with the career of James Crawford Biggs. The letter...
...States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability of a maximum proportion of existing forces," the Four-Army Plan eliminates much costly delay and confusion during the early and critical days of conflict. Such an innovation, calling for reorganization...
Last week the old familiar Epstein sensation was going full blast again. The Daily Mirror, stirred to the depths of its cylinder presses, refused to reproduce a photograph...
...Academies. And with considerable justice. To the quick glance of a gallerygoer the walls looked about the same, but Norway-born Artist Lie had done about as much as one person in one season could do to enliven the Academy. Prizewinners, announced fortnight ago (TIME, March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among them were exhibitors few expected to find there: Surrealist Peter Blume (TIME...
...prominent. Pierre, the eldest, is a well known actor of the Théâtre I'Athénée, despite the paralyzed hand that the War gave him. Jean, the second, is a cinema director, lately produced a well reviewed film of Madame Bovary. Blond Claude, familiar to all art students in dozens of child portraits, is the plump & prosperous owner of the largest cinema in Antibes, L'Antipolis...