Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This morning the Vagabond is sick unto death of culture. The Cantabrigian mists, swirling their gyral shapes about the familiar tower, serve as an ethereal transport for his soul, and carry it to far climes. There, the allusions of Professor Babbitt forgotten, the Vagabond recalls an author he once read, a febrile man, Edger Rice Burroughs by name. As the memory returns, he hears the scream of a gorilla, charmingly uncultured. Then, all around him, swarming from the trees, comes a clan of the great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars...
...difficulty of giving recalcitrant or stupid Tutees the benefit of the system without detriment to others more worthy has been a bone of contention over since the tutorial method of instruction was put into effect. The broad outlines of the problem should be familiar to all. The CRIMSON wishes merely to set forth its conclusions on the matter. First of all, it is apparent that the general examination should be a prerequisite to the A.B. degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which...
Most aquarists and tropical fans are familiar with Anabas and many other labyrinthine fishes that are favorites among the 600-odd small tropical fishes being imported for home aquaria. The notorious Siamese fighting fish also belongs to the same family...
...Strict enforcement of legal rights brings about foreclosures, forced sales and losses to the owner and mortgagees alike. Those familiar with the present situation can see no reason why mortgages should yield 5½% when other securities are yielding 4% and banks find difficulty in lending call money at 1%. Above all things, mortgages cannot be expected to yield in interest more than the productive possibilities of the properties...
Tall, baldish, with piercing blue eyes and a cropped mustache, he keeps himself in as rigorous trim as when he was a locomotive mechanic in the Altoona shops. His big-toothed grin is familiar to all Pennsylvania's 115,000 employes. When at home (which is seldom) he lives simply in Radnor outside Philadelphia. He claims that his house is so furnished that he can put his feet up whenever he sits down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger...