Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...Clarksdale, Miss, and elsewhere in the Mississippi Delta, however, WPA projects were suspended as police lent a hand in the familiar practice of benevolently shanghaiing the jobless to the cotton fields in picking time. Those who refused to go were arrested for vagrancy...
...monumental history of Harvard of which three installments have now left the press. Approaching his material from an entirely new angle, the author has left to us, the contemporary sons of Harvard, and to our successors, a book of rare charm, a history which is lightly written yet accurate, familiar but not impertinent. From start to finish it reads like a first rate novel...
...loud speaker system, installed in the Stadium last fall, will be used to explain the purpose of the various drills and to call out the names of those players already familiar to followers of Crimson football...
...Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...