Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fulfillment of our dreams approaches. With a new brilliance will the lights of Cambridge shine. Soon we shall have a modern hostelry in our studious midst. Dimes will click less frequently in the Subway. Gone will be the familiar sight of the early morning straggler in the Waldorf, for in the future Hotel Harvard will receive with open arms the seeker of bright lights and jazz. University guests will no longer seek the doubtful convenience of staying in Boston and commuting to the Square. Cambridge, antiquated, solitary provincial, fades into the Cambridge of the future, a Metropolis sufficient unto itself...
...that day. He was not the Abe we had all known. He was different. There were new lines in his face. It was sorrowful. His steps were slow. He had passed out of his young manhood. When I spoke to him he answered with that gentle dignity now so familiar to all who know him. From that hour he was Abraham Lincoln...
...other business and few professions offer as broad a commercial education as the exporting business. For the successful exporter must be familiar not only with the mechanism of international trade, but also with the industries whose goods he exports and with the general financial situation. He who has served an apprenticeship with an exporting house will find that he has had a training which will make him an asset to any business...
...name of Granville Barker is widely known in the theatrical world because he has accomplished more than anyone else in the building up of the repertoire theatre. He is familiar to Harvard men for the production of two Greek plays in the Stadium in 1915, "Iphigenia in Tauris" and the "Trojan Women." In addition to his extensive work in England he has sponsored many productions in New York. Two of his best known successes were "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "The Doctor's Dilemma...