Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar phenomenon in the U. S. is the Anti-Saloon League, now 35 years old. Becoming familiar is another phenomenon, now nine years old, called the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...been for the familiar square head of Old Paul von Hindenburg, an observer would have thought that this was medieval Germany...
Hand Talk. Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, lawyer, physicist, songwriter, stood before one section of the B. A. A. S. with some tin tubes. By solemnly blowing and wiggling his fingers he made the tubes give out familiar words. This was his way of proving that sounds could be resolved into simple elements and contrariwise, combined into complex sounds. He urged further scientific study of phonation so that eventually all people will pronounce their words uniformly...
...group of minor reporters one figure emerged as dimly familiar. The name, it seems is Grouse. He was greeted by a kindly burst of applause from a warm-hearted audience and he received at least one telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
...furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind, his face hidden by fluffy, square beard and flourishing moustache...