Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular movie actress and best-looking men is the respective classes, occupy enough space in the newspapers to show clearly enough what is expected from the colleges. The latest riot at Yale, when fifty policemen charged a dormitory on account of a single bag of water-such as are familiar between Russell and Randolph--is given seven inches in even the "Transcript" and two-inch headlines in the "Globe...
...homogeneous race, familiar with a common language, is obviously needed to attack problems concerning the public welfare. The process of assimilation will be delayed as long as the use of English among the children is not made universal. Rightly enough, the Supreme Court has decided that freedom of language is a corollary to freedom of speech: the proper line of attack is not to forbid other tongues, but to encourage English as the first essential...
...Among his best known novels are Frau Sorge (Dame Care), Der Katzensteg (The Cats' Bridge) and Es War (It Was). His plays include Ehre (Honor), Es lebe das Leben (Long Live Life!) and Heimath, the last of which, under the name of Magda, is particularly familiar to English and American playgoers. Much of his work is available in English translations...
...first time in his scholastic career that Whitbeck had been forced to five sets to win, for the encounter yesterday afternoon was anybody's match throughout the first four frames, although in the fifth the long strain obviously began to tell on Watson. The two contenders were thoroughly familiar with each other's game, however, for this is the third year that the Andover man has been runner-up in the tournament...
...most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help or hinder the audience into a feeling that they are being educated instead of amused. But the misadventures of the various Antipholuses and Dromios-played with speed and nonchalance wherever possible, as the Ethiopian players did it-can still entertain those...