Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author endeavored to make the play homely and human. He succeeded, but at the expense of interest. The action drags one foot after the other interminably. The characters seem too familiar; the comedy is rare...
Last week, Wall Street woke with a start to discover another new industry had invaded its security market. Strength in what facetious financial writers here dubbed the "dough stocks" emphasized the growing importance of the baking industry generally. The stock market has long been familiar with "cracker" companies like National Biscuit and Loose-Wiles; recently, the "bread companies," like United Kakeries, Ward Baking and General Baking, have attracted attention on the "Big Board" and Curb alike...
...them have come from other universities and have been astonished to find that the physical equipment they found at the end of their pilgrimage was insignificant beside the physical equipment that their own universities offered in the same field. They found that the great teacher, whose name was familiar in every American university, had practically no real physical equipment at all at his disposal. They saw him accept, with as good grace as possible, dingy rooms here or there which the corporation appeared to have no other use for, first in Dane Hall, then in Massachusetts Hall. When the corporation...
Higher education in the U. S. was once more put in motion at many institutions.* Returning students registered, shook familiar hands, laid in various supplies, strolled off to investigate their new courses. Excited matriculants, reported everywhere to be in record multitudes, explored their surroundings, asked questions, herded into chapels and auditoria to be welcomed by deans and presidents. Deans and presidents brought forth sheaves of notes and speeches, expounded aims and ideals in terms occasionally selected with an eye to arresting the world's attention as well as shedding light and inspiration upon undergraduate audiences. At Hanover...
Because many students in the University are not familiar with the steps to take in case of illness, the following announcement was made yesterday by Dr. M. H. Bailey, Medical Adviser in the University...