Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lenders, frequently illegal loan sharks, when they needed a loan. I share the benefits of one myself; had it not been for Filene I should not have had it. This is not his only concrete contribution to liberalism; it is simply the one with which I happen to be familiar...
...followed by reviews which set a standard of literary excellence Mr. De Voto's more pedestrian reviewers might do well to emulate. I shall not tell you the books mentioned, nor the reviewers named, but a reader aware of Harvard's famous or notorious will find much that sounds familiar. Professor S-r-k-n, Professor J-n-s, a brace of instructors in the -c-n-m-cs Department, Messrs. M-rq--nd and S-nt-y-n- and Colonel -pt-d all go along for the ride...
...number of years astronomers have been familiar with supergalaxies,--clusters containing perhaps a few hundred Milky Way systems...
...Similar scenes occurred at his Lakewood, N. J. estate, where Mr. Rockefeller lately spent his summers, and at Pocantico Hills, where Mr. Rockefeller had bought up whole villages to create his 3,500 acre dukedom, with its 50 mi. of roads, vast landscaping, staff of hundreds, private police force. Familiar to Mr. Rockefeller's neighbors, north and south, was his greeting: "Good day and God bless you." Many prized one of the 20,000 dimes he had bestowed with the admonition "Save...
...well in his first year, and will undoubtedly improve. The lectures are well delivered, but not in all cases clear. The laboratory work is interesting, but in some cases, qualitative experiments should be replaced with more quantitative once. Chemistry 16 is far more satisfactory, as professor Kistiskowaky, more thoroughly familiar with the material, and able to approach it from a more advanced point of view, makes his lectures clear and absorbing...