Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question consequently rises, Where is the purchasing that can maintain the present rate of steel production? In both 1923 and 1924, production reached tremendous volume in the early part of the year, only to decline severely during the latter half. Is 1925 to see a recurrence of this now familiar annual production cycle in steel...
...temperature or habitat. On page 8, Jan. 12, item Albert A'hunting, with mangroves and coconut palms on the high plains south of Nairobi and monkeys in juniper and olive trees in that section, you are telling us Travelers' Tales that set us, who are familiar with Africa, a-wondering. You ought to have that flight 'of fancy in the "View with Alarm" column...
...opposite to the American. Over here, trade, came before the colleges and grew up with them, particularly in the West. In England the colleges and trade have been mutually exclusive, and business must force its way in. The contest between American and English's colleges is shown by the familiar example of extra-curriculum interests. In America one "works to make" something or other; in England we played at activities...
...such a small voice are mighty schemes made known. This All- American company may serve U. S. opera as the innumerable little municipal opera houses of Europe have served Italian, French, German opera?making it familiar to the people outside great metropolises, giving unknown composers, singers, a hearing. It will do this if Fortune again goes where Gallo goes...
Capital Punishment. We are led to believe that this effort is something of a propaganda film. Death for crime is depicted, in a sense, as a crime in itself. The familiar old device of showing a prisoner convicted by circumstantial evidence is employed. He didn't do it. You know he didn't; everybody knows it; but it takes the film several reels of rather weary melodrama to convince its own authorities...