Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...
...summer after the appointment of Secretary Whiting, his successor) was published last week. Last commercial survey by the man who made the Commerce Department famous, it covered fiscaf 1928, which ended June 30, just after Mr. Hoover was nominated and before his resignation was accepted. It sounded very familiar, being largely a replica of its author's campaign speech. "Fiscal 1928," said Mr. Hoover, "had continued the high economic activity which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression, and a temporary abeyance of motor-making (Ford's style change...
Long before the noon hour of meeting, members congregated on the House floor to talk, to listen, to laugh, to mill around, to exude cordiality, to slap backs, to wring friendly hands, to encircle familiar shoulders. Two prime conversational topics predominated...
...characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed people, you smile at first and then realize suddenly that though they look strange their feelings are familiar...
...familiar example of the type of man whom everybody knows about but very few know much about is Martin Luther. He was a vital influence in the politics, religion and literature of the XVI century and the lectures to be given about him this morning and Saturday by Professor Howard should be of interest to students in any of those fields. They are to be given at 11 o'clock in Sever...