Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny, freshly painted church was half full; some 60-odd were there, including ten reporters chosen to represent the corps. The guests were relatives and friends. Among them were a handful whose names were familiar: ex-Treasury Secretary John Snyder, New York Real Estate Magnate William Zeckendorf, John Frederics (whose lace-crowned bridal veil Margaret wore), Italian Couturière Micol Fontana (who was commissioned to create the wedding gown because it was a Fontana dress Margaret was wearing one evening last November when she first met Daniel). The Rev. Patric Hutton, 30-year-old rector of the church, read...
...Minister Eden gave a banquet, at which Britain's great appeared in "lounge suits" in deference to their guests' limited wardrobe. B. & K. came in voluminous gabardine topcoats over grey suits. But the hit of the evening was Sir Winston Churchill, pink and beaming at the old familiar door, waving a cigar and giving a V sign. Bulganin gave a jovial speech in which he obliquely compared Khrushchev to Churchill...
Bloemfontein and the cataloging of the Southern skies were one answer. But it would have required, for a successful consummation, a definite centralization of the Observatory away from Cambridge. Local conditions, and even those at Harvard, Mass., were far too poor for high-quality optical work. The all too familiar New England weather does not supply skies to match those available to Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories...
Gruenther was vague about his post-retirement future. "I have no personal plans and no ulterior motives," he said. "I have refrained religiously from looking for a job." Then, with a familiar flash, he added: "But I'm certainly not going to grow cauliflowers...
Skinner claims that the person who adapts the machine to a particular field doesn't need to know the field so much as he must be familiar with the methodology in teaching...