Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part of the same picture-the familiar tapestry, this time brighter and more improbable than ever, of life and young love in old Vienna...
...decade the 10,516-ton merchantman President Adams has sailed the seaways of the world under the bold, white dollar-sign insignia of the Dollar Steamship Lines. But next week when the President Adams steams out of San Francisco for the Far East and round the world, the familiar $$ will be missing from her single stack. In their place will perch jaunty silver eagles, emblem of the new, Government-controlled American President Line...
Today, short stocky Dr. Kelly, with his fuzzy head, broad white mustache and scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What...
...bentonite which he dried out 'in order to ascertain the weight shrinkage. The paper-like lining which surprised him was then deposited. Under the microscope he saw that the minute clay particles had joined together in long chains which matted, making a tough, pliant membrane. This phenomenon, though familiar in organic substances, was not previously known to occur in minerals such as clay.* Dr. Hauser's theory is that the bentonite clay particles are electrically charged, and so line up end to end in chains by polar attraction...
...This familiar dearth of new financing was admittedly I. B. A.'s big problem, but last week the 585 merry conferees produced no new explanations for it, no new remedies. In his opening address Banker Frothingham gave measured expression to I. B. A.'s usual explanation-that the New Deal is to blame. Said he: "Business still feels the gravest concern and hesitancy to venture, in the atmosphere of restrictions and penalties that confront it." Nonetheless, Banker Frothingham gave the New Deal praise for right motives...