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Word: familiar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar is the lengthy decameron of the Post's civic exploits. Every year the available hunters of Denver go off to the mountains in quest of jackrabbits, and these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/18/1933 | See Source »

Perhaps these things are platitudinous, perhaps I err in presenting material which must be all too familiar to intelligent men. Certainly, those beatific doctrines which have earned Mr. John Dewey the gratitude of every politician have been thoroughly punctured. And if any literate men still remain beneath their spell, there is for the purpose of enlightenment Mr. John Chamberlain's brilliant analysis of the vicious circle which is their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/17/1933 | See Source »

...hand. Example: splitting the light of distant nebulae in their spectroscopes, astronomers got spectrum lines which they could assign to no known element. Accordingly they created by mutual consent a new element, called it "nebulium," and doubted that it existed. Years later they found "nebulium" to "be their familiar friends oxygen and nitrogen, ionized into unfamiliar atomic states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coronium Out | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Vern O. Knudsen, president of the Acoustical Society of America, communicated to the Society's Journal some studies which indicated that sound is absorbed in air ten to 25 times more rapidly than had been previously calcu lated, and that absorption is fastest in dry air, a familiar fact to those who know how well sound carries on a foggy day. Since then Dr. Knudsen has not ceased to experiment with the "decay" of sound under various conditions. To the same Journal he has now reported new findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Decay of Sound | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...winners of the Hound and Horn Undergraduate Competition are both from Stanford. One is already familiar to the periodical world, J. V. Cunningham, recipient of the prize for verse. Albert Guerard, Jr., whose "Winter in Davos" merits the fiction award, has never before been published. "Winter in Davos" has the effect of making one wish that Gertrude Stein would not be read by undergraduates with a lust for composition; more and more does it become evident that hers is, although an eminently imitable technique, the kind that does not go well with the tyro, for the tyro always succeeds...

Author: By R. G. O., | Title: On The Rack | 11/3/1933 | See Source »

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