Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber Lee's researches have enlightened his own perplexity: TIME employed "cyclone" in its familiar U.S. usage, the distinction between tornado and cyclone being of degree, not nature...
...laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted by radio, affected the gas flame as would the vibrations set up by a tuning fork in the experiment familiar to physics students. Sufficiently intense vibrations would have extinguished the flame. The color change resulted merely from the vibration of gas and flame, being similar to the effect produced upon a gas flame by increasing the pressure of its fuel...
...born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls and So Big are the most familiar echoes to her name. She trains severely for authorship; swims, dives, secludes herself in a Basque fisher village...
...title of M. (Monsieur) ? In mentioning members of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, or any other governmental body, I like to see their title used. This means of designation helps one to read with more understanding, especially in the case of lesser known persons whose record is not familiar to the general public...
...Beau Geste was a superbly sanguinary book-and it was-this latest* is truly magnificent. The hero is familiar to Beau Geste readers as Major Henri de Beaujolais of the Spahis and the French intelligence service. But you have no idea of this man's training prowess and unblemished character until you read Beau Sabreur...