Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever since those nuisances came into existence, several thousand years ago. It furnished the slogan of the war-garden in the amended form of "Lettuce Beet the Kaiser", and it has served the purpose of statesmen and politicians. It is on the subject of politics--class politics--that the familiar construction comes in again. This time it is: "Let us vote...
...Conte Feerique" of Rimsky-Korsakoff is lovely--but in the same way that all of this Russian's work is lovely. There are frequent reminiscences of "Scheherazade", and there seemed to be throughout strangely familiar harmonic, melodic, and even instrumental sequences, as in the throwing of a figure from trombone to trumpet, thence to piccolo, followed by a string development...
...considered by most critics as strong if not stronger than the 1921 Kentucky outfit, Coach Fisher is pushing the Crimson squad into mid-season shape as quickly as possible and yesterday ordered one of the longest scrimmages of the season to allow the University eleven a chance to become familiar with the Centre formations and plays, which were used by Coach Knox...
Something ought to be done. If these outbursts of infantile joy cannot be restrained, they can be diverted into more fecund channels. After all, clapping is purely mechanical, a very inadequate outlet for self-expression. Why not, instead, concerted singing of that familiar old song...
...commonplace. And infinity is far more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving away from us 150 miles every second. By the time the Dudley Street car reached the Cloud's present location, the galaxy...