Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chemistry is a familiar field for Wilson--shereceived a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from theUniversity of Wisconsin...
...phrase was so familiar that Radcliffe Dean of Educational Programs Tamar March referred simply to "the devil" without bothering to finish the phrase...
While not every student has participated in high school or Little League baseball, most American students have experienced the familiar ebb and tide of the summer pennant race...
Hence, the familiar boathouse idiom that "ergs don't float," emphasizing that brute power on the rowing machine does not necessarily translate into wins in he water. Butt often preaches the "nine on one" approach to racing. The crew and coxswain must function as one unified force, and view the opponent as nine independent rowers, any one of whom is vulnerable to "cracking" or having lapses in concentration...
...those of Johnny Hart's estimated 100 million readers who hadn't tuned in for a while, the Easter Sunday edition of his caveman cartoon B.C. may have come as a bit of a shock. The characters were familiar; but B.C. and the Cute Chick were watching the sun set behind a very large cross. As the sun dipped, the cross's shadow extended until it enveloped them. The shadow, Hart explains, was done in blood red to indicate Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made...