Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hymn Tune Should be Familiar...
...have been better designed to meet this demand. By giving the schoolboys of higher than average ability a taste of the honors course, of tutorial work, on independent effort, not only those actually partaking of the advantage will benefit, but the whole school body as well will become reasonably familiar with the collegiate educational atmosphere. Consequently, on becoming undergraduates their minds will react more quickly to its influence...
...entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden's nose from photographs, blue-prints and blackboard drawings. "Whenever you see that nose, sock it", the young gentlemen from Princeton were instructed...
Statement of Council-President Cadman last week: "Loose talk of military intervention, either in Nicaragua or in Mexico, finds no support among any of the church groups with which I am familiar...
Ghosts. Ibsen's tragedy employing a pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role...