Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know. It is this quality that I imagine you will find in her new novels?the novels she is going to write from now on. They will still be of the West; but they will probably show that great historical background of pioneer days with which she is familiar...
This Elizabethan miscellany, familiar to Shakespeare and containing a ballad which may have provided Ophelia with snatches of her mad scene, is now reprinted for modern readers and students, in a pleasing edition which follows the original pagination, punctuation, and division of lines. "The Handful of Pleasant Delights", says the editor, "contains nothing but ballads, all of which and, before their collection in miscellany, been printed on breadsides, so that it is a bit surprising to see how unanimous is the price given to it." Whether the present reprint should prove more tempting to student of special topics...
Spring practice serves to give the coaches a valuable line on the candidates; especially the green material. It will also give the new men an opportunity to become familiar with the fundamentals of the Harvard system. The men will also receive individual attention, which is a great help and which is impossible to give in the fail. As has been customary in the past, it is expected that undergraduates will help Head Coach R. T. Fisher '12 and his assistants in the coaching...
...remarked by other experienced observers, the task of breaking in a new man, when a longer and longer interval separates the class from its graduation day, would be one of monumental difficulty. Also, the necessity of having permanent officers, familiar with the course of class and college events, to start things off at reunions and banquets in apparent to anyone who has even attended such a ceremony...
...language-a literature which reads from right to left, and who assumed, when they were told to place an X mark in front of Congressman Bloom's name, that they were to place it at the right hand thereof, in accordance with the language with which they are familiar...