Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hookworm" manner of his Southern birth. The performance was the first of a series of "Living Dramas of the Bible" put on by Columbia Broadcasting System.* Conceived by Assistant Director of Broadcasts Douglas Coulter, produced by Max Wylie, the first Living Drama was a thoughtful, serene projection of the familiar troubles of Job. Among its actors were two MARCH OF TIME voices and Stefan, son of famed Pianist Artur Schnabel. The Job act was followed last Sunday by a less leisurely one detailing the career of Joseph, whose repulse of Potiphars Wife was done by a series of understatements culminating...
...same track a year ago. It is to be doubted though that this supposed handicap should cause him to foul twice in the broad jump and strain so as he never has before at the finish of the hundred. More likely is it that Ben had an off day familiar to most track...
...Each of us reacts differently to the stimulus which we experience." To illustrate this familiar thesis...
...newshawks trooped into Mr. Ball's suite, they glanced about for some of the familiar financial faces that reports had linked to the deal-Boston's old Frederick Henry Prince, Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton, General Motors' Donaldson Brown. None was there. Talking in a corner was Erie R. R.'s Chairman Charles Leininger Bradley but he was obviously on hand to talk to his new bosses. Old Mr. Ball, neat, spare, paternal, stood chatting with newshawks, giving as good as he received, just as he did in Washington when Montana's Wheeler...
...resounding click of the camera and the somewhat more violent flash of the bulb are rapidly becoming familiar disturbances to the formerly pacific routine of daily existence. Basing its policy on the age-old concept that the little things in life are after all the most important, Life Magazine has commenced to invade the home, the theatre, the dance floor, and many less agreeable places where these little things may be seen to crop out. Feeling that the nightly American practice of undressing was a valuable and instructive field to attack, Life presented its million and a half readers with...