Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar barnyard animal is distinguished by its penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
Author. Educated in his native Rumania, Konrad Bercovici entered the U. S. in 1916 with his Rumanian wife. Soon his stories of gypsy life were appearing in The Pictorial Review, the Century, Harper's and other magazines. His name became a familiar one in the columns of The Nation, The New Republic, The Masses, and The Liberator, where he wrote on sociological questions from the vantage of an educated man, an immigrant to one of the most complex and multicolored cities on earth?New York. The completeness with which he assimilated the flavors, forces and antecedents of his new surroundings...
...Blue 1929 eleven is reputed to be one of the strongest Freshman teams turned out at New Haven in many years. Among the players who will battle against Coach Campbell's Harvard team tomorrow are several with names familiar to followers of Yale football. Kline playing right tackle and Bingham holding down the right end position. Charlesworth, former Exeter captain, is playing a strong game at tackle for the Eli invaders...
...this. They commonly believe, first, that victories give 'good advertising,' and second, that victories indicate better than anything else the quality of the undergraduate life, and even of the college instruction and administration. For lack of other standards, they judge the college by this, with which they are familiar...
...patronesses. Later their eyes wandered to the box at the right of the stage decorated with the seal of the U. S. and two small American flags. They saw no one there; the President's box was quite empty. But a few keen-eyed watchers detected a familiar figure in one of the smaller boxes in the horseshoe in the front of the gallery. There sat Dr. and Mrs. Spence, who had been guests at the White House for several days, and with them was a slender woman in a plain black suit, with a black velvet hat, grey...