Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining Grant's stubborn friendship with gross and clumsy thieves on the familiar "blind spot" theory, Dr. Hesseltine notes that the President was so conscious of his years of business failures that he considered any man who could make a little money as the possessor of vast and mysterious gifts. But Grant's blind spot seems to have been singularly elastic, now large and now small, now enabling him to see through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool...
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? Morley Callaghan?Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father...
...registration in Memorial Hall at 10 o'clock Harvard College will have swung into action for the 300th academic year. Today the college will be given over to the Freshmen, and over the weekend a series of meetings and receptions have been arranged to help the Freshmen become familiar with their new surroundings...
...Meteorological Station, perched on the summit of Great Blue Hill in greater Boston, has continued uninterrupted weather observations for fifty years. Equipment includes pilot balloon apparatus, radiation receivers, and an instrument for recording night cloudiness besides the more familiar, thermometers, hygrometers, and barometers. Sub-stations are maintained on Mt. Washington. Mt. Wachusett, Mt. Monadnock, and in Cambridge...
...Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...