Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already $5,500 has been contributed, and promises of more have been heard from many sources, according to the latest bulletins. But the Senator says that the names of the donors will be kept secret, for reasons known only to himself. The situation thus begins to resemble the one familiar to readers of detective stories in which a jewel has disappeared and the lights are extinguished for the thief to return it undiscovered if he so desires. The only chance of failure for such a plan is that the treasure will not be returned intact, and unless various guilty consciences...
Tonight before the meeting of the candidates Bump will briefly outline the history and purpose of the organization. The competitors will be expected to devote two afternoons a week to the competition, one afternoon at the air port to become familiar with the mechanics, construction and operation of the plane; the second afternoon to be devoted to clerical work in Cambridge...
...made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that has made her so--well, that has made her. She twinkled at a dear old roue and the lady that is always nearby said: "She's got an idea." We didn't look quick enough, maybe...
...familiar cry of "no personal contact" so often applied to large university has of course a strong basis of truth; and it is rather far-fetched to think that the meeting of one important Harvard man once a year with only 250 students will go far in establishing close relations between the student body and the governing factors in the University. Nevertheless the idea is good. University teas are another embodiment of this same effort, and they too, play a role in introducing the two main bodies of the University to each other. The semi-formal, social character of such...
...President during the Civil War, or built a fortune as big as the Rockefellers' or outshone Sam Houston, Dewey and Lindbergh as heroes. But ask the man-on-the-street today who John Charles Frémont was, and the answer will probably be: "The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place...