Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conductor: wiry U. S.-born Edwin McArthur, long familiar as accompanist to Kirsten Flagstad, who made his much-talked-about debut last week conducting a performance of Lohengrin in which Soprano Flagstad sang...
...third compulsory dive is the familiar half-gainer with pike (jack-knife position), while the fourth is described as the "backward spring, forward dive. This flip-flop is the same as the regular back-jack-knife, but it omits the jack. Fifth dive, the "half-twist backward," is the fourth dive with a half-twist added, the diver entering the water facing the springboard...
Rudolph Valentino in all his romantic glory; the Jean Hersholt, the Alan Hale, and the Wallace Beery of another day--all these familiar or renowned figures presented themselves to 700 members of the Film Society who attended the showing of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" at the New Lecture Hall last night...
...case against the chains rests on the familiar charges that they tend to drive independents out of business, force farm ers to take lower prices for their goods, foster monopoly, and bleed the communi ties where their stores are located in favor of absentee owners. To these assertions the chains have answers authenticated by impartial groups ranging from The Harvard Bureau of Research to the Federal Trade Commission...
Most significant advance this year is the virtual disappearance of the familiar wobble-stick gearshift lever; almost all 1939 cars will sport some sort of steering-post-mounted gearshift either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller...