Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hence the rink has not been in use since last Thursday. In the meantime the varsity has taken to the familiar boards of the Boston Garden...
...been the case in recent months, the Advocate Notes seem as carefully composed as anything in the magazine. Providing diversion among the ubiquitous advertisements are lines like "David Chandler, an Eliot House senior, is familiar to many of our readers. Last summer, he published a joke in the Saturday Evening Post and was paid...
Tobacco companies may soon be allowed to sell cigarettes without the familiar blue tax stamp on the package. A new Internal Revenue Code, going to Congress in 1954, is expected to leave it up to the Treasury to decide how specific excise taxes should be paid. Tobacco men, who now pay the tax at the time of manufacture, tying up millions of dollars, want to pay the tax after the cigarettes are sold...
...scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...Marry stirs occasional interest with its new photographic technique. Unlike The Robe, in which historical setting limited use of the wide-lens camera, How To Marry puts CinemaScope to work in everyday surroundings. Freed from painted sets, the medium projects a new illusion of space by concentrating on familiar scenes like the George Washington Bridge and the New York skyline. Had the film concentrated as much on script lines as on skylines and necklines, How To Marry a Millionaire would have been a more profitable gold hunt...