Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing calm of Dr. James Maurice Doran. In 19.30 it was transferred to the Department of Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased to exist legally when it was swallowed up by the Justice Department's new Division of Investigation under John Edgar Hoover. All 1,800 Dry agents were dismissed, 1,000 rehired. Postmaster General Farley solemnly announced...
...most frequent and familiar cry heard in the Johnson office in the Department of Commerce building is "Robbie!" At the General's loud call up steps a small, pert young woman of 27 named Frances Robinson. She is his secretary and shadow. She runs his tumultuous office. She flies with him on his missions about the country. She hovers over him at all press conferences. She is a NRA power...
Deafness is often commonly caused by some obstruction in the outer ear passage or by hardening of the middle ear ossicles. Present, familiar air-conduction hearing devices are simply modified telephone receivers which step up sound vibrations to penetrate through the obstructed passage to the inner ear. Advantages claimed for the bone-conduction instrument are a mellower, more natural tone, an increase in hearing range. No more than the air-conduction instrument will it restore hearing to people whose auditory nerves are impaired...
...case. In most samples there was even less nitrogen than is soluble in whale's blood at atmospheric pressure. Peering through his microscope, Scientist Laurie discovered why. He found that whale blood teems with tiny free-swimming organisms, 20 millions of them per cubic millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced...
...would be one of gratitude rather than perplexity. You would know that "the Empress" was Empress of Blandings, that she was probably the finest sow in Shropshire, that she was the rotundly ridiculous centre of Author Wodehouse's absurdly complicated plot, and that Lord Tilbury-a figure long familiar to addicts of Wodehumor-was, through a curious weakness in his otherwise adamantine character, about to become involved in that plot far beyond his dreams or his patience. Your sense of gratitude would be great because you would suspect, by the characteristic solemnity of its beginning, that the paragraph would...