Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your ignorant "Press" editor ought to be more familiar with the history of the press. There wasn't any "hearth." There was a private car in the Michigan Central yards in Chicago. In it William H. Vanderbilt was dining with some friends when an offensive young reporter, Clarence Dresser (who was I believe a brother of Theodore Dreiser), forced his way in demanding an interview. Mr. Vanderbilt did not want to see him but the reporter persisted. Finally Mr. Vanderbilt told him to wait till he had finished eating. The reporter could not be stopped: "But it is late...
...Penn Junior boat foreshadowed the Senior victory by leading Tech and Harvard across the finish line with two lengths to spare. Earlier in the afternoon the University lightweights rowed a losing race against Tech's 150-pound combination. While these boats were losing over the familiar Charles River course, the Freshman 150-pounders and the Junior A. class champions, were suffering a similar fate at Derby at the hands of Yale Sophomore and first 150-pound outfits...
...entomologist of the Belgian Commission on Sleeping Sickness which spent some time in Africa. Dr. G. M. Allen, is a lecturer on zoology at the University and also secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. He has spent some time in British East Africa and has become familiar with the fauna of that region...
...proposal were drawn wholly from the two middle classes, the Freshmen being non-committal, and the Seniors showing a slightly favorable margin. No certain conclusions can be drawn from these figures, but they seem to indicate that those students who have been in college longest and are most familiar with conditions show a tendency to favor subdivision of the College into smaller units...
...American students, the works of these authors have the intrinsic value of being indigenous. And this idigeneity is of two-fold advantage. In the first place, American works often offer American readers an easier comprehension of literary materials, those employed being more familiar than sources plumbed by English writers. But in view of the richness of English sources and the catholicity of literature generally, this advantage is slight. The second is rather more substantial. A sufficient knowledge of American literature is all but essential to a balanced estimate of American society. If untutored in American literature since grammar school days...