Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other works are by Robert Nanteuil, one of the foremost French artists of the seventeenth century, Stephano Della Bella, an Italian etcher, Vaillant, a less familiar French artist, and Jose Ribera, a Spaniard...
...purely voluntary basis, and is especially directed toward concentrators in fields other than American history, literature, or philosophy. Its goal is the breaking open of the hard, self-sufficient nuggets of specialized knowledge, and correlating them with the main streams of life. The thought is a variation on a familiar theme; the chord has been struck by President Conant time and time again. It is, today, most concretely expressed in the University Professorships which require men without pigeon-holed ideas but with great synthesizing powers...
Having Wonderful Time (by Arthur Kober; Marc Connelly, producer), the season's pleasantest institutional drama, is laid in one of the numerous cheap summer camps for New York Jews which dot the Berkshires. Those who have not visited such a resort as Camp Kare-Free may already be familiar with the nature of its patrons through Arthur Kober's piteous, humorous, sharply observed New Yorker reports, collected in book form as Thunder over The Bronx, on the year-round behavior of one-sixth of New York City's population...
Creasing his checks the familiar professorial smile was smiled, and in disarming kindly tone he asked if one of his pupils had read a speech of Patrick Henry's, assigned in a book of documents compiled by the professor and nicely bound by the Oxford Press at a price suitable for a work by a great scholar...
...several fields to be discussed and men of such prominence as Governer Winaut, head of the Social Security Board, and Secretary Morgenythan, have agreed to come up to Cambridge to talk with undergraduates of the three institutions, every effort will be made to have those who take part throughly familiar with the subject matter in the agents...