Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the amount of effort that has been expended upon the traffic problem it must be recognized by any sincere student that we are now familiar with only the rudiments of cause and effect in traffic operations. A much broader program of scientific research is required from Federal, State, local and academic agencies, which have already made important contributions...
...dislike the League of Nations but the suggestion of Horthy was believed in Budapest not to displease Berlin or Rome. His Serene Highness proposed that there be a European League, an Asiatic League and an American League -each to mind its own business. Anyone who knows Admiral Horthy is familiar with his sulphurous epithets for Stalin, and the Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain...
...Familiar with such devices of abstraction from reality as rapid changes of time, place and angle in the cinema, plain citizens are still unreconciled with corresponding devices in painting like Cubism, which Braque above all living painters most clearly represents. The purpose of The Yellow Cloth is simply to show different, fresher and more beautiful appearances than an ordinary collection of objects on a table would possess. Braque's table is not necessarily out of perspective, since it would be possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table...
...elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...stirring times that followed was Tom Moore, a short, bouncing, dandiacal Irish poet, whose life and work expressed the age's contradictions perhaps as well as any man's. Son of a prosperous Dublin greengrocer, he was schooled at Trinity College, where he was a classmate and familiar of the great Robert Emmet, was involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England, some time after, that he wrote his Irish Melodies, the series of poems which...