Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still, the parallel between now and the days of 1914-1917 is close. Then too, leaders of church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances have returned within the last month to haunt and harass the spirit of a nation determined to stay...
...Isolationists by inheritance, standing in the shoes of Isolationist Fathers: La Follette, Clark and Lodge. Day after day the Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
...equally demonstrable one that "the kind of system which prevailed in America before 1929 is unworkable. . . ." His alternative is laissez-faire, the principle of the free, competitive market under the law that Jefferson believed in. Parkes proposes to apply it unflinchingly to modern industrial society. If this sounds familiar, readers will discover that its implications are about as flabbergasting as they are logical. Stripped down to economic essentials, they...
Although the appointment of the director of the Harvard Press as chairman of the American Civilization Plan is no doubt surprising to many, those familiar with Dr. Malone's record can only appland the selection. As historian, professor, and editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, he has amply qualified himself for his new status...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...