Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly all familiar with the objective in mind. My wish is to build up here a Department of Legal Medicine second to none other, but I firmly believe that its growth must be gradual in order to be sure. The plan is destined to a manifold development, only a small part of which is as yet under way. We are here today to mark the establishing of that part--to lay the corner stone of a structure which will need time to build, but which must ultimately prove of consequence in the service of mankind...
...MacDonald has included all the familiar criticisms of his own. His book will be a solace to all discontinued Republicans it is too much history however, to be entirely facile reading and it seems to be too critical to pass as exposition. "The Meuace of Recovery" will strengthen the conviction of those who oppose the New Deal. but it will make few converts among those already aligned with President Roosevelt...
...failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant lies simply to attract interest and who collapse when someone finds them out. The scenes are mostly familiar to local readers--the Harvard club, Majestic Theatre, and hotels easily identified...
...would soon feel at home. The same stately elms still march across the close-clipped green. Some new buildings have been added to the architectural hodgepodge. There are new fraternities; Tyler Dennett's own local AZA has become national Phi Gamma Delta. But he will find many a familiar face in the faculty. Three years ago a census revealed that one-sixth of Williams' professors had taught there more than a quarter-century...
...Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages, once nearly dying of thirst when...