Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This committee will arrange all details for the next few meetings and will have charge of securing speakers and enabling members to become more familiar with the principles of Marxism...
Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
...authorities are directing their attention to the college, always the "pet" of Yale men. The recent introduction of a general examination system, thoroughly familiar to Harvard cars, will undoubtedly invite bitter criticism and stinging comment from some graduates, whose attitude has always been, "woe unto the barbarian who lays violent hands upon our venerable college...
...shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley got down to more familiar ground. Boomed he, cocking his head pertly at President Roosevelt: "A half century ago, upon the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University, the institution was honored by the presence of . . . President Grover Cleveland. . . . Today Harvard University is honored by the presence ... of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...specialized field was a story of expert magazine promotion. From the start Publisher Hecht gave his magazine quasi-official status by allying it with Columbia University's Teachers College, with Yale, with the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota. A platoon of "advisory editors" was appointed, each with a familiar, impressive name and no objection to mild publicity...