Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flailing at Nixon from Eveleth, Minn., Democrat Adlai Stevenson last week echoed a familiar, false criticism of U.S. capitalism, namely, that it feeds on disaster and thrives on war. Said Stevenson: "When the President seemed to reopen the door for Richard, I heard on the radio that the stock market reacted to Vice President Nixon's improved political fortunes by going up a few points. I don't, as I say, know exactly what this means- but I do recall that the market normally rises in the face of a declaration of war or other national calamity...
...found only in the jungles of Ceylon, is a direct evolutionary link between the oversized, stinging, primitive ants of Australia and the highly developed ant subfamilies familiar in this country...
...generations of newsmen in St. Louis, the squat, hustling figure of Sammy Bronstein was as familiar as their city editors -and sometimes more important. Sammy, peering sharp-eyed through thick glasses, regularly made the rounds of pressrooms and other reporters' hangouts, lending newsmen enough money-at high rates-to tide them over until payday. Last week Sammy Bronstein, 78, himself made news for his old customers by pulling off his greatest financial coup; for an investment of $3,600 made in bonds in the bankrupt Missouri Pacific Railroad 18 years ago, Bronstein got $970,000 in securities...
Dreyfus quickly developed a connoisseur's eye for the small bronzes, rarely over gin. high, that Renaissance noblemen once placed in their studies as familiar religious objects or models of classic statuary. To these Dreyfus added a collection of the medals that wealthy Italians had struck off for special occasions, and of the small, exquisitely molded bas-relief plaquettes often worn as neck pendants. In pursuit of perfection until his death in 1914, Dreyfus sometimes owned as many as five or six versions of the same medal in succession, settling only for the most flawless. The result of this...
...Baptist minister with two bachelor's degrees (Morehouse College, the University of Chicago), an M.A. from Harvard and a divinity degree from the Rochester Theological Seminary, Johnson was already familiar with Howard's predicament. Though known as "the capstone of Negro education," it was scarcely a third-rate institution. Only two of its eight schools were accredited. The plant was run down; its annual appropriation from the Government was heading into ever-mounting opposition from Southern Congressmen. Running Howard would have been a tough task for any man, but it seemed especially...