Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sickeningly Familiar...
TIME'S reports of German "pogroms" have a sickeningly familiar ring. The atrocities of "the bully boys" certainly cannot compare in sheer brutality with the torture murders of Negroes in the fine old South and the collection of souvenirs of human skin by degenerate spectators...
...doldrums and staged a strong, though brief, rally. Other indices, like public spending shown by weekly bank debits, were less cheery. On the other hand, building-most bullish factor in the industrial equation-continued onward & upward. F. W. Dodge Corp. announced that November building contracts awarded in the familiar "37 States east of the Rockies" were up 52% over November 1937, bringing the eleven-month total to $2,807,489,000, highest since...
...semi-autonomous district of Memel, Lithuania, last week, the greeting everywhere was "Heil!" Uniformed storm troopers marched through the streets. Banners proclaiming the familiar One People, One Reich, One Will stretched across buildings. The only Nazi trappings missing were pictures of Adolf Hitler and swastikas. Lithuanian State police moved out. Lithuanian troops kept strictly to their barracks and the Lithuanian Governor, his decrees defied, resigned to be replaced by another who refrained from issuing orders...
...opinion of the Faculty of Design, the architectural education now offered at Harvard is superior to that in any other university. When the new arrangement goes into effect, the School of Design will assume the character of a laboratory in which the students, being already familiar with the scientific concepts and essential processes of the several arts of design, will devote themselves to the development of professional aptitudes...