Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maybe. Wherever Delegate Davis turned on disarmament, he bumped head-on into War debts. During the War he had been the Treasury Department's Financial Commissioner in Paris on loans from the U. S., was thus thoroughly familiar with the origin of these obligations. He was an off-the-record observer at the Lausanne conference and is credited in some quarters not only with knowing the inside story of the Gentlemen's Agreement but with having, by his tact and patience, materially aided the conference's success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State...
...decree, Chancellor von Schleicher ignored the theoretical odds against him, proceeded calmly to build his Cabinet. There was a chance-slim but a chance-that with well-hated Colonel von Papen definitely out, the Reichstag might be cajoled by Chancellor von Schleicher into adjourning until next year under the familiar German formula of a "Christmas Truce...
Professor Copeland will also give his annual Christmas reading, for members of the Freshman Class only, on Monday, December 17, in the Upper Common Room of the Union. Whether he will give a reading of familiar selections over the radio as was the case a year ago sometime before Christmas is still unsettled...
There were also some mutterings about the sentimental value of traditions which we hooted down on the familiar grounds that outworn traditions are the enemies of progress. It was noticeable, too, that the voices raised in defense of ancient custom came from individuals who lived far away from Nassau Hall...
Such admonitions are familiar to motorists in the East and South, especially in North Carolina and Virginia. Not every one knows that they are mostly the work of one man, Ashby W. Hardy of Petersburg, Va. Traveling roads as far north as Massachusetts, Sign Man Hardy received no outside aid, financial or physical. Some of his thousands of signs-biblical texts and dour injunctions-he painted on board or metal sheets at home, nailed to roadside fences and trees. Others he whitewashed directly on jutting rocks, tin roofs, barns, sheds...