Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemble Oliver Chair of Hygiene to become Professor Emeritus, he will always be recalled by those now in the College and those who have entered since his coming in 1925, as one of the more memorable and lovable figures in the University. For ten years he has been a familiar figure to every Freshman class, in the New Lecture Hall, the Hygiene Building, and in evening conferences with small groups from the Freshman dormitories...
...annual Pension Fund Concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is to be presented on Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Symphony Hall. The program contains familiar Wagnerian excerpts including the overture to the opera "Tannhauser." In addition, Feodor Chaliapin, noted Russian basso, is to be heard with the orchestra in selections from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov" and from the opera "Prince Igor...
...economic rather than racial basis. Attempts to find the cause in Latin temperament are interesting speculation but do not present the whole picture. Cuba's constant dissatisfaction with government is firmly grounded in its extensive sugar fields, and their relation to the United States. It is a familiar, unsavory story of a small group, in this case beet sugar growers in the South, obtaining a high protective tariff on Cuban sugar, despite the fact that it is economically unsound. The result of setting up such lofty tariff walls in the past few decades has been a paralysis of Cuba...
...familiar, even to non-opera goers, is this Wagnerian character that the name Brünnhilde has passed into U. S. speech as depictive of any large beefy woman, usually with a big head of hair...
Operation of this theoretical submarine depends on a fact familiar to high-school chemistry students-that water separates into its component gases when an electric current is passed through it, hydrogen collecting on the negative pole, oxygen on the positive. While under way on the surface the submarine's engines burn a mixture of oil and hydrogen, have enough reserve power to drive an electric generator. This generator furnishes current to an electrolyzer which turns water into hydrogen and oxygen under pressure. The excess hydrogen and all the oxygen are stored in steel tanks...