Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the new organization as outlined by J. D. Gatsos '29, Secretary Treasurer and Chairman of the program committee, is to unite the foreign students of the University. At the meetings they will be addressed by men who are familiar with current international relations and will have an opportunity to discuss on neutral grounds the problems of their respective nations...
Previous to this year, it has been the custom to have regularly scheduled Monday night lectures given in each of the Common rooms in turn. The speakers for these meetings have been scheduled long in advance and they have not always been men familiar to the fist year undergraduates. Consequently, the lectures were not generally attended, even it the start of the year. The remedy proposed for this lack of interest will be a kind of Australian ballot system by which lectures popular among the Freshmen will be obtained. The system will be thoroughly explained tonight...
Down come the attractive little white wooden houses with their neat green shutters Pegasus soars to a new stable, Tragic Muses drag from their familiar haunt, the last of the Arthurian Mohicans packs his kit--the Widow is moving to the Gold Coast...
...last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment she commended the likeness...
...radio equipment with dancing eyes. That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear were perfected...