Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe any one familiar with the practical use of tear gas does not recommend its use as a palliative for diseases, but that it should only be used under emergency conditions, making unnecessary the use of clubs, revolvers, shotguns, or rifles...
...Life of Emile Zola is an original treatment for the screen of the career of a great 19th-Century French novelist whose name will be less familiar to most of the cinema public than the great 19th-Century French scientist whom Muni characterized so successfully last year. It is not with Zola the novelist that the story concerns itself, but with Zola the man who blew the lid off the greatest political scandal of its time, France's famed L'Affaire Dreyfus...
Pumpernickle Bill's car is a familiar sight on Pennsylvania roads. He averages about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
...daguerrotype does from television, your lay readers probably were interested in an industry that was merely a gleam in a chemist's eye five years ago and now grosses $5,000,000 a year. But, it must have been amusing to the oil fraternity, which is thoroughly familiar with acidizing as it is practiced today, and as portrayed in a bibliography of 114 published articles on the subject, 90% based on data supplied by Dowell...
...present surroundings are familiar to me because when I was sent in 1909 from the San Francisco office of the Monterey Lime Co. to get some data on production costs, I spent a week or more at the kilns. A nephew of mine was manager of the lime company until it went out of existence...