Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treaty. Frequent discussion has made the main terms of the treaty familiar enough?by it the signatory powers "condemn recourse to war" and "renounce it as an instrument of national policy." They agree also to settle disputes "by pacific means." Furthermore, as Senator Borah stated last week, as Secretary Kellogg has previously said before the Foreign Relations Committee, the treaty should not be regarded as affecting in any manner the right of any signatory to go to war in what it considers self-defense...
Absolutism of one sort or another, so popular at present in southern and eastern Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...highly improbable that at Harvard any division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...
That there is general truth in all this no one familiar with the run of college newspapers will deny. Critics are inclined to take a lenient view of the causes; some say that the demands of academic work and the difficulty of producing thoughtful, readable editorials day after day are responsible, and others that the lack of constructive work is due to the effort to make good reading matter at the expense of common sense and often of dignity...
...familiar with contemporary drama...