Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
...competing in the New England Intercollegiate medal tournament. Princeton, being undefeated, is naturally expected to set back the Crimson six, but Harvard is in an excellent position to spring an upset, since the Oakley course is short and tricky and Harvard will have an advantage in that they are familiar with the layout...
...detection of forgeries. Error and fraud are bogeys not always easy to exorcise, and even genuine doubt is disturbing, as Mr. Laurie shows in his discussion of "La Belle Ferronniere," by Leonardo da Vinci. There were two contenders for genuineness, one in the Louvre (the more familiar) and the other in the Hahn collection. A trial took place in New York, but the jury disagreed. Mr. Laurie's own deposition, offered now, after a microscopic examination of both, is that the Louvre picture is unquestionably authentic, while the Hahn, which is also old, is the copy...
...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1925, "The Prodigal Son," "Avon's Harvest" and many other of his lesser-known works are exhibited. The poet's first work "The Torrent and The Night Before" is to be seen with a personal inscription to President Eliot by the author, in his familiar indecipherable hand...