Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing so unfamiliar as this familiar world of ours in the all-transforming hands of Shaw. And there is no play of Shaw's in which the world appears more elusive, more charmingly decadent, and less itself than in "Heart break House." The Repertory players enjoy the privilege of giving the play its first staging in Boston...
...treaty was ratified 260 to 116, after the Laborites had rehashed the familiar reasons?chiefly "expense"?on account of which Britain should abandon the Christians of the unhappy Mosul frontier region to the Turks. The usual aftermath of crimination and recrimination ensued...
...clear-headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that is the reason that...
...Familiar Tune to Be Used...
...words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae", "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand", or "Jerusalem the Golden". Further information concerning the competitions may be obtained from N. S. Rowe '26 in Grays Hall. The closing date for the competitions has been set for March 37. Free tickets for Class Day will be awarded to the winners...