Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japanese censors in Manchukuo held up for several days but finally passed news that early next year the Oil Monopoly will: 1) banish from Manchukuo the familiar cans of Standard Oil, Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...
...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...
...Because of events with which we are all familiar, there exists today, I regret to confess, evidence of misunderstanding between many of our country's bankers and those whose duty and responsibility it is to administer the affairs of the country...
...divides these into: the political scene at home and abroad, what men do and believe, familiar essays, the world of education and knowledge, America's cultural life, and some unorthodox thinkers. Represented are such authors as: Frank H. Simonds, Christian Gauss, Richard Cabot, Ellen Glasgow, Sherwood Anderson, Walter Prichard Eaton, and Henshaw Ward...
More inclusive than "These United States" this annual includes many personal and familiar essays and is not so much concerned with presenting a view of American contemporary political thought as it is in collecting in one volume the thoughts and literary efforts of men not primarily interested in politics and sociological problems but in expressing ideas on their own particular speciality. For those who would find a collection of periodical literature valuable it is an excellent compilation. A bibliography of outstanding American essays published in American periodicals during 1934 is a valuable supplement...