Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to adhere to the constitution and laws of this country, who stand for our ideals. We have need of a number of things that we ought to dispose of, and the first is the League of Nations. We want action on it. My own views you are all familiar with, as expressed in my letter to Senator Borah, who has begun to take a touching interest in all my affairs. I told him that I believed we should accept the League of Nations with the reservations known as the Senate reservations. In dealing with this, we must not look...
...flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium of a successfully irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate might well be replaced by a homelier and more familiar apple. In general, the verse in this issue is too rhapsodic and aerial. I suppose that the feverish apostrophes to Beauty in the abstract are due to the limitations of Cambridge in the concrete...
...Yale's easy victory over the swimming team on Wednesday night, another unsuccessful aquatic season draws to a close. It has become quite the custom now to read of Harvard's defeats in the water; when the team wins, it is actually an occasion for surprise. People not too familiar with conditions here wonder at the cause for this succession of routs, they smile at the facility with which the smaller colleges snatch contest after contest from Harvard, and they grope vaguely for the reason for our pitiful lack of prowess in swimming...
...music, which is all new to Boston audiences, is catchy and pleasing. "That's What They Like About Me," "When Love Comes Knocking at Your Heart," and "Mademoiselle Bon Nuit," would all become favorites if they were sung a little better. Most of the jokes are familiar to readers of "Dere Mable," but that in no way detracts from their bright, clean humor...
...words for the Hymn should be set to some familiar tune, such as "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand," or "Integer Vitae...