Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an ex-railroad man and familiar with the accuracy of TIME, also LETTERS, the writer had a chill of fear for the safety of the Presidential party on their recent cross-country jaunt. In the picture of Engineer Britton looking [TIME, Oct. 7] straight ahead with keen eye and steady hand on the throttle lever, it appears very much as though the reversing gear is set to send the locomotive and its burden in the opposite direction, quite a dangerous practice on any railroad...
...TIME, Sept. 30, you describe the President's Western trip as a ''political reconaissance." I am quite familiar with the word reconnaissance, but do I need a new dictionary or did TIME err in spelling reconnaissance with...
...years a fixture of the Federation as familiar as the red-white-&-blue bunting over the speakers' platform has been the squabble within the building trades group. It began with a series of jurisdictional disputes among the affiliated craft unions, following which the three biggest unions in the group (carpenters, bricklayers, electricians) withdrew from the Building Trades Department of the Federation but not from the Federation itself. At the San Francisco convention last year, the "triple alliance" sought and was given readmission. That called for re-election of officers within the Department, a move which brought howls from...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
...Davison uttered grateful words. Presently a switch clicked in the darkened room and then was heard the sound, familiar to planetarium demonstrators, of hundreds of gasps and smothered exclamations, like the far-off murmur of surf...