Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those adolescents who are prone to regard Boston journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...decided to appoint a sub-committee, which would make all arrangements for this institute, choosing a suitable time and place and securing speakers, thoroughly familiar with the NRA program from its inception, so that the professors may hear informative, educational and authoritative talks on the subject. Thus they would be presented with an authentic interpretation of the program for their own benefit and for the benefit of their students...
President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...
...calculations from the Einstein formula and measurements of the energies of cosmic rays, Caltech's Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reached the disputed conclusion that interstellar energy is constantly accumulating in the form of the familiar elements...
...returning seniors have spent a hectic week concentrating on Bible, Shakespeare, and Ancient Authors examinations. Many are making in these few days what is their first systematic study of books admittedly the foundation of their field, and others already familiar with the material in question are finding their knowledge a little too rusty for the purposes of formal inquiry...