Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the name Teterboro was as familiar to the air-minded public as the word Newark is today. Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most...
...better known phrase today than it was a few years ago. It means perception of matter or of images in another person's mind without the aid of the ordinary senses-in other words, clairvoyance and telepathy. The fact that extrasensory perception is an increasingly familiar concept among people who pay no attention to crystal-gazers and swamis is largely due to the rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy...
Three Comrades is on the face of it a lovestory, of the same type as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, but Remarque's familiar skeleton is not far under the surface. Three old comrades of the War have found each other again in Berlin, in the days just before Hitler. None of them has prospered in post-War Germany. Otto owns a small garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto...
Briefly, a survey course, delivered by a capable lecturer, and covering the period from Homer to Demosthenes, is what is now needed. There are still many men who, having neither the time nor the inclination to learn the Greek language, still wish to become familiar with the literature and life of this era. For them as well as for the enrolled concentrators in the classics such a course would be a timely and popular addition to the roster of courses now available...
...familiar, faces of Captain Dean Hill in Centerfield, Ken Sandbach at second base, and Bill Fallon at first will again bring boos and applause from the Soldiers Field stands...