Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Thompson's Political Guide will be familiar reading to followers of her column or her monthly contributions to Ladies' Home Journal. Effervescent with bromides, it is less a guide to U. S. politics than to Dorothy Thompson's. Most persistent katydid note is for a liberalism which she defines as "a type of mind, a kind of spirit and a sort of behavior, the basis of which is an enormous respect for personality...
...Damned as a radical and faced with the continuing slide of the market, Bill Douglas took over in September, soon let it be known that so far as he was concerned regulation had only begun. After three years on the SEC in lesser jobs, Chairman Douglas was all too familiar with the Exchange's standard method of passing the buck. Under the influence of Richard Whitney, no longer president but still boss of the board of governors' Old Guard majority, the Exchange would agree to any reform that was suggested, then evade it on a technicality. With typical...
...shows a blissful ignorance of the personality of swine. I envy the man who has never had to become familiar with their perversity. . . . The average hog can only be driven by a system of deceit in which one attempts to prevent it from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet...
Suregobble, Surelay, Suremilk, Suretürk, Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years...
Studies of the vastness of the universe and the invisible smallness of the atom are remote from the things of everyday life. Scientists also go far from familiar things in the study of low temperatures. Hydrogen liquefies at 252.7° below zero Centigrade and helium liquefies at - 268.9°. Compared to such temperatures, the inside of an ice-cream freezer is a seething furnace. The utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite...