Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article referred to does not in any manner specify or distinguish the live poultry industry from the dressed poultry, so that many of your readers, not familiar with the subject, after reading the article referred to would naturally conclude the entire poultry industry to be infested with graft and racketeering. The dressed poultry industry has no connection whatever with the live poultry trade, and is a distinct and separate line of business...
...went, calling out the names of practically every modern German author with whom the outside world is familiar: Karl Marx, Jakob Wassermann, Albert Einstein, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger. Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Walther Rathenau...
Fighting all the way, the government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until...
...consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score of the Army match. 6 to 3, was the closest. This helped to shake the familiar alibi of the Northern colleges -that the Southerners have had two months more practice when they meet. Last week North Carolina's tennists made the alibi seem even more inadequate when they finished their 1933 schedule by winning the Southern Conference championship for the fourth year...
Recalling the familiar fact that U. S. Government and business had issued nearly $100,000,000,000 worth of gold bonds against $4,000,000,000 in gold, the President explained his suspension of the gold standard: "Were the holders of these promises to pay to start to demand gold, the first comers would get gold for a few days. . . . The other 24 people out of 25 who did not happen to be at the top of the line would be politely told that there was no more gold left. And so we have decided to treat all 25 people...