Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that economic security of every kind is a desirable end, well worth striving for. But what the proposers of it ought to say is something like this: 'We offer you a vision which we call security, but in order to get it you must give up many of your familiar liberties...
...evident to anyone who is familiar with modern experimental science that many important problems can be solved only by the efforts of a team of specialists. It also seems clear that the solitary worker immersed in his own ever-narrowing specialty is losing his importance...
Last month this high-speed Harvard sophomore made familiar news when, driving to Washington for the Christmas holidays with his brother John, he was arrested near Orange, Conn, for zipping along at 78 m.p.h. over a wet highway, disregarding a red light. By telephone a White House secretary got his trial post-poned until Christmas holidays were over...
...Bruno Hauptmann's twelve chosen peers were even moderately intelligent newspaper readers, they must have been entirely familiar with Attorney General David. T. Wilentz's preamble as he opened for the State of New Jersey. He traced the old ' story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder...
...look at Viscount Rothermere's familiar face, say friends of this Hearst of England, gives one his intellectual measure. From Munich last week Lord Rothermere cabled thus to his string of British papers (3,350,000 copies daily, exclusive of provincial publications...