Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...
...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
Though they did not talk that way face to face, Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Sir Josiah Charles Stamp were in effect last week debating a familiar old question at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
...fortunes of the nine magazines. After Yuben came Kodan Club* a light magazine containing old historical romances recited by professional storytellers, folk tales preserved by word of mouth from generation to generation. A boys' magazine called Shonen Club was intended to teach sound morals and national pride in a familiar chatty style. Omoshiro ("Interesting") Club (now Fuji) was inspired by the Curtis magazines in the U. S. "An organ for all that was interesting and amusing, light and soothing," it was designed to sell at a low price and develop into a popular advertising medium. No. 5, Gendai ("Present Generation...
...have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker and the New Classes. The Little King appears only once. Other persons and places are new, if vaguely familiar...