Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faces familiar to a thousand U. S. businessmen's conventions assembled in Halifax last week, but there was one difference. This time it was the bootleggers who made the speeches...
...establishment in Leverett House of a "library" of phonograph records is an excellent idea. The only real way to learn music and to appreciate it is to hear it, and there are many students who would like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with...
According to the new theory, the neutron is a close combination of the more familiar parts of atomic structure, the election and the proton. These bear charges of electricity, the former a negative one and the latter a positive. The neutron, being a combination, is thus a neutral cross between both. For this reason, it has been considered very difficult for physicists to prove its existence, since neutrons would pass through ordinary matter without having any magnetic or electrical effects. The gravitational effect of neutrons passing close to some atomic heart or nucleus has been a theoretical possibility...
...income of Yale University in 1932 will fall half a million dollars short of estimated expenditures, President Angell has announced. Accordingly, expenditures are to be reduced by 10 per cent. As any one familiar with the affairs of American universities knows, Yale's financial troubles are by no means exceptional. Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, and Chicago are known to be feeling the pinch of the depression. There is probably not a single endowed institution which has not suffered more or less, and most of the state institutions are also facing the problem of continuing their work on reduced incomes...
...marriage made Murray a member of the Chickasaw tribe and, through his wife, he came into possession of several thousand fertile acres of land on which he began farming. At this time he was tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand...