Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar figure at similar events...
...inaugurated a program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every...
...totalitarian state are being imported to Brazil. President Vargas will rule by decree until such time as a plebiscite on the new constitution can be held; the old representative organs are being abolished; and the army and navy are being used to insure President' Vargas' authority; but these are familiar accompaniments of a South American revolution. That which gives democratic countries cause for concern is the fact that intolerance and the destruction of free thought have gained a real foothold in the American continent, the stronghold of liberalism and freedom. This is precisely the development which President Conant and others...
...gratifying indeed to note that under the able tutelage of his wife, Mr. Lewis' education has progressed to the point where he is familiar with Messrs Gladstone and Disraeli. I am also sure that he would certainly have given proper credit to the originator of the phrase, instead of palming it off as his own, except for the fact that like myself he cannot remember whether Gladstone said this of Disraeli or vice versa...
Freshmen enrolled in the Naval R. O. T. C. unit in the Naval Science department went on their first short cruise yesterday afternoon aboard the U.S.S. Tillman, reserve destroyer familiar to many Harvard naval units...