Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Familiar sights may look entirely different to us when viewed from a telescope mounted beyond the earth's atmosphere, which cuts down a great many high-frequency wave lengths and causes distortion on our photographic plates...
...remaining articles, however, are a little short on information, and they serve to remind the reader that, after all, U.S.A. is the N.A.M.'s publication. Perhaps the worst of the lot is Senator Byrd's un instructive and strangely familiar epic on federal expenditures. The Senator gives us a "Byrd's eye view of federal spendorama," and not content with turning this phrase, he explains how many dollars of OUR money the bureaucrats, politicians, and pinks are spending each second of the day. Beyond these gimmicks, Senator Byrd has very little in the way of analysis, discussion, or interpretation...
Council members felt that recounting of ballots should be divided between girls who were familiar with procedure and those who have petitioned for a recount. Any student interested, however, will be allowed to help count on Saturday, or at least attend the meeting...
...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
...moved the U.S. to second place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans...