Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies...
...Harvard Advocate has had many changes of format in the years since 1866, yet it holds a familiar place in the undergraduate and the outside world. Although sometimes companioned for strident intervals, it is now the most important published outlet for Harvard literary ambitions and opinions...
...Once the League's nicely calculated scale of penalties begins to be applied, tempers must soon be lost all around and blood will begin to flow. Last week, though the first step toward sanctions had been taken under Article XV, alternative possibilities were more numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia might reject. Italy accept and the League be compelled to let Italy and other States conduct a war of sanctions against Ethiopia in the role of aggressor or Italy could withdraw from...
...Roman Catholics gathered in Cleveland for the 7th National Eucharistic Congress (TIME, Sept. 30). In Public Auditorium and Municipal Stadium the pilgrims and Clevelanders attended mass after mass, went in throngs to confess their sins in 14 languages. They listened to speech after speech on such familiar Catholic themes as the wickedness of Communism and Birth Control...
...Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe in a preface: "Those who chance to read them and find them too familiar, or, perhaps, flippant, will please remember that in the thoughts of the present generation these characters wear no halo. As a matter of fact, many girls and boys of today have never heard of them. They may have Bibles, presented by fond grandmothers, but they do not read them. Most...