Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced to switch from silver to gold. She could do this because the Central Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government to buy gold. Bankers familiar with the East were sure that such a plan would not work. Any drastic change in China's financial structure would probably provoke a revolution. The Nationalist Government is not strong enough to prevent the smuggling of silver...
There are definitely two kinds of research. The worker may, as in physical sciences, experiment with new combinations of elements, or, as in literature, delve into the lives and works of men who have contributed classics to that field of intellectual activity. As the physical scientist must be familiar with the old combinations before he can experiment with new ones, so the neophyte writer must have some acquaintance with what has been written in times past before engaging successfully in a work of originality. The English department very adequately provides opportunity for this detailed and scholarly acquaintanceship with the English...
Dean Pound, who was wearing his familiar green eyeshade, exhorted his hearers to take advantage of their opportunities. "No one will stand by with a red." Other bits of advice: "Don't be afraid of learning things that are just so." "Take reasonable care of your health." "Don't succumb to the preva- lent disposition to avoid taking part in a public discussion in a lecture-room...
...they were able to stand the gas and get at me. I then shot the grenade in a room and asked the men to go in. This was a real success. . . ." Remarked Senator Bone: "It would appear that Paul's activities give a new meaning to the familiar old tune 'Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...bath of boiling oil. U. S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block, writhes in splendid style when compelled to turn the winch that opens the door of the robbers' cave...