Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dated Aug. 26, Publisher Howard's letter fairly oozed personal friendship, while setting up certain familiar criticisms of the Administration for the President in his reply to knock down. Excerpt...
...great medical scientists who are members of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Manhattan has a reputation with the man-in-the-street equal to that of a minor volunteer worker at the Institute named Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Familiar only to the small scientific circle is the mighty attack of Dr. Florence Sabin upon the germ of tuberculosis. Every cancer specialist is aware of Rous's sarcoma but outside the Institute's walls Dr. Peyton Rous is a personal unknown. It took a Nobel Prize in 1930 and the recent use of his blood analysis in bastardy...
Facts & Feats. Despite popular impressions, Dr. Carrel is not the tail of the Lindbergh kite. He has had a fine full career of his own, which, had it been in politics or retail merchandising or baseball, instead of scientific research, would have made him a familiar character to newsreaders from coast to coast. After looking back on that career for more than a year, Dr. Carrel this week published a book into which he packed the essence of his experiences, philosophy and intuition as a doctor and as a man. He called it Man, the Unknown.* Its theme is that...
...securities. During the previous 14 years, J. P. Morgan & Co. had floated more than $6,000,000,000 of bonds and was by all odds the world's premier house of issue. Wall Street welcomed the re-entry into the securities business as the resurrection of an enduring and familiar institution, symbolizing, perhaps, the return of peace & prosperity...
Next night young Democrats and the nation heard John's father read a "non- political" speech over the radio from Washington. "Facts are relentless," throbbed the warm, familiar voice of the President. "We must adjust our ideas to the facts of today. ... To the American youth of all parties I submit a message of confidence-unite and challenge. Rules are not necessarily sacred-principles are. The methods of the old order are not, as some would have you believe, above the challenge of youth...