Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse for Paris...
...head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase of supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces in France; in 1918 he returned to the A. T. & T.; in 1925 was made A. T. & T. president. Among the many innovations credited to Mr. Gifford is the now familiar "night letter" telegraphic service. Mr. Gifford, 44, is still young, as presidents, as directors, go; and has an operating rather than a financial background. Interests he represents, however, have large U. S. Steel holdings...
...wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public, and for the first time their sponsors have some grounds for hope that they have not all been in vain...
...centuries ago, when Christmas meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields, is proof that the spirit of Christmas has never been more truly given to the world in music...
...center of the Harvard group hangs a print of the familiar painting of "The Three Philosophers", William James, Josiah Royee, and George Herbert Palmer, the original of which is in the Faculty Room of Harvard College...