Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly or fortnightly quiz, given for the purpose of keeping the student on the job, as it actually works in most cases, fosters pernicious methods of study. The students do what is expressed by a very familiar phrase, "cram up for the quiz and forget it." They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being...
...Members from ten different countries, numbering 135 in all, gathered at the 'cross-roads of the Pacific'," said Professor Wilson. "Everything from finances, resources and the tariff, to religion and race was considered. Members or groups of members drew up reports on problems with which they were familiar. These reports, were read to the assembly and were followed by a discussion...
...this year, and were found entirely satisfactory, as the men were not only able to move with greater speed, but were amply protected. The line, with the exception of the ends, will play in regular football uniforms, so that the team will be in two parts, those in the familiar heavy fogs, and another group in a new abbreviated regalia, more like rugby than American football equip...
...time after reading your review of it. But for the first time I am thoroughly disgusted with TIME. My first impulse, after reading page 48 of the Oct. 3rd issue, was to cancel my subscription. That page, with its rehashing of the foul Beecher scandal, would have a familiar setting in the Daily News or the Graphic. It is altogether out of place in TIME. For printing such a scurrilous attack upon one of the most gifted and cultured men who has appeared in the American pulpit you deserve to lose many subscribers. And you will. What I regret most...
...Deterding says that the Soviet oil industry has barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...