Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Official photographer to the University for more than 30 years, Notman's has shut up its studio and familiar landmark on Massachusetts Avenue...
...pool their knowledge and preserve the eternal verities. Such a proposal is stimulating, particularly now, when everyone is sifting every eternal verity to see whether it is a Republican eternal verity or a Democratic eternal verity. We would like to see such a court established, but we are familiar enough with the temper of mankind not to place too much confidence in it. The world already has access to the collected wisdom of its seers. But prefers to live by its inherited folly. This government, for example, has unlimited opportunity to examine into the eternal treacheries...
...should no longer be necessary to deny that the Washington government of the past four years bears a Cambridge trademark. In spite of the American Mercury's description of Mr. Rosevelt as a "typical product of its training," the exact opposite seems to be true to those familiar with its ideals and teachings. Harvard's historical battle from Dunster and Leverett to Lowell and Conant, has been for a free university in a free commonwealth...
...American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier," explains Lexicographer Craigie, accounts for the U. S. habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive...
...Clinicians are familiar with malignant changes taking place in lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...