Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt, when the ruling becomes more familiar, students will increasingly desire to avail themselves of the privilege. Only the limited number of tutors available can prevent the extension of the system to an ever larger group. As the honor student well knows, the guidance of a tutor in preparation for divisionals is more valuable than the lectures of a professor...
...Italian commander, Colonel Ronchetti, incurred no active resistance; the Senussites are familiar enough with European armaments to realize their hopeless impotence. Italian-censored radio despatches declared that the Senussite chieftains performed the ceremony of submission while the Italian flag was unfurled from a specially imported staff. Later, Colonel Ronchetti appointed the Sherif Pasha el Gariani custodian of the Senussites' holy places...
...short space of time I have been here, I have been taken about from one strange place to another without any chance to get oriented. I am not very familiar with your country or your language yet and so I am waiting for a little of the snow to disappear before I begin wandering about by myself. Only when one knows the language well, can one wander in safety...
...taking his pen in hand. One can sympathize with the plaintive cries of the laity for fewer mistakes, but when the critique is couched in terms of the craft, it conveys an impression of authoritative knowledge, an impression which, in the case at hand, is evidently quite unjustified. Anyone familiar with the business of reporting, writing, editing and printing news knows that TIME ranks high according to every journalistic standard...
...public expects this story to be treated literally, tersely, like the report of a drop in the temperature or a tumble in stocks ? PRINCE HAS QUICK FALL YESTERDAY or SHARP DECLINE FOR WALES. But last week the readers of the New York World were amazed to see the familiar item headlined as follows...