Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Markels and his band are familiar figures at all the leading social functions in New York and acknowledged to be unequalled in the quality of their dance music...
Each piece played will be from a specially written orchestration, thus rendering familiar tunes in an alluring and altogether novel manner...
Yammering among educational, athletic and apostolic authorities as to whether the football player shall be allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those...
...more reversal of that familiar proverb, the gobs will get you if you don't watch out, Sharp Shooters, while it becomes at times a trifle dirty, is straightforward, adventurous and, even in the subtitles, comparatively witty...
Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...