Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dressed to go and asked why she was going away, and she laughed and told him: 'McTinley's toming, tan't have two Presidents.' . . . I went back to the White House again for the first time three years ago. . . . Downstairs nothing seemed familiar, but when we took the elevator and got off on the second floor I thought almost out loud: 'Oh, this takes me back.' It was an odor, something with roses. I couldn't tell Mrs. Hoover the smell reminded me of something, so I asked mother about it later...
...what may be his last time President Hoover last week went through the familiar ritual of receiving a foreign ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Into the White House Blue Room where he stood stiffly waiting there marched promptly at 2:15 p. m. the State Department's Warren Delano Robbins and a dark-skinned, bright-eyed little man in a gold-embroidered green uniform. He was Augusto Rosso, Italy's new Ambassador...
...recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Raphael Demos, Lecturer on Philosophy at that haven of intellect, discusses "Some Aspects of a Liberal Education." Since he is striving after clarification rather than novelty, his maxims, isolated in italic type, have a familiar ring. "The aim of a liberal education is to arouse the sense of wonder," he says. "The aim of education is to break the stranglehold of the present." "And the aim of a liberal education is to arouse the young man to a keener awareness." To the common conception of liberal education as a conspiracy to arouse...
Editorial candidates, under the guidance of members of the board, will have an opportunity to express their ideas on all subjects of University or outside interest. Through the aid of constant criticism, their style and the clarity of their writing will improve rapidly. Like news candidates, they will become familiar with the devious workings of the University and the various educational and financial problems which confront...
...branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors milling impotently before bronze doors...