Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little the Army gets from the New Deal and how much other agencies get. Like most heavy artillerymen, General Hagood lacks neither brains nor tongue. Pleading for money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money which is very easy...
...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
...this fascination to the reader, but the detail is necessarily so abundant, the subject is inevitably so remote, that the common reader, at any rate, will find the book bewildering and difficult to grasp. It is, of course, a book to be digested wholly, though people who are already familiar with Jonson may dip into it from time to time and seize information on their favorite play for future consumption. It is not a book to read at one sitting, for at best one's interest in Jonson nowadays is secondary. As Mr. T. S. Eliot once remarked, Jonson...
...Strange! No one had heard the nurse scream. He paused but he bedside of a man near the door, and inquired in an audible whisper: "Is this the third floor?" Receiving an affirmative, he demanded assurance. "You're sure this is the third floor?" Assured, he strode to the familiar bed and again deposited the large box across the foot...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...