Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar words of the beloved Alma Mater song came to my ears as I approached the banquet hall where the Alumni Association of the International Correspondence School was congregating for its annual dinner. I paused. My thoughts flashed back to that day when, all unwittingly, I had made a momentous decision, which has affected my whole life...
...this utility I do not now speak: I have only liberal culture in mind. I grant that the German language seems odd; but for this very reason, I conceive, the study of it is peculiarly valuable to a speaker of English. If one knows Latin, French is already half familiar. Though one be ignorant of Latin, one knows what is meant by "grande nation" or by "declaration d'independance". "Unabhangigkeitserklarung" is a decidedly more baffling symbol for the letter idea. Yet what, upon close attention, could be clearer? What joy is comparable to that of discovery? And what is more...
...fortunate as to have taken German B, when he needs but three courses more. Two additional courses in literature are required; but these need not be in German literature; a student may freely indulge his predilection for Greek, Latin, English, or the Romance tongues. Then there is the familiar requirement of knowledge of the Bible, of Shakspere, and of two ancient authors; and finally comes general acquaintance with German literature considered as a branch of learning...
...right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage, in journalism, in writing advertising; but found it only, invariably, in willing women. Eventually that escape became familiar; unnecessary. Kenneth settled into his harness, comfortably drawing a wife and two children. Another account of mediocrity in search of an image deserves attention only because Author Smits can, indubitably, write...
...President's recent speeches revealed that he had delivered himself of the following utterance to the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers : "In the course of some researches, preliminary to these remarks, I found myself needing a more accurate definition of a certain trade term, no doubt thoroughly familiar to all of you, than I was able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President...