Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford Union motion "regretting the influence exercised by the U.S." [TIME, June 12) may easily give a misleading impression to readers not familiar with the circumstances. First, the Union is by no means representative of undergraduate opinion; it speaks only for its own members. Second, voting is affected as much by the merit of speeches as by the merit of motions; it is, after all, a debating club. Third, the oratory of Mr. Randolph Churchill, in marked contrast to that of his distinguished father, has always been a sure vote-loser amongst Oxford audiences. Neglect of these considerations caused widespread...
...were beginning to look like the rule rather than the exception. The Red Sox had already set a modern high-scoring mark (29 runs against St. Louis). The Cleveland Indians tied another record by scoring 14 runs in one inning. From owners, players, managers and coaches came an old, familiar cry: someone had been putting benzedrine in the baseball again...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...
Last week Argosy magazine spread 40 of the 51 replies across four pages, topping them with mastheads and dressing them in the familiar headline styles of the newspapers. The answers were an interesting commentary on what was on the U.S. mind-or, at least, on the minds of its editors. By far the majority-four out of five-wanted most of all to see an end to war, hot or cold. There were no headlines dealing with such big day-by-day space-fillers as domestic politics and sport. Only one out of ten editors thought the biggest news would...
...will be able to judge the proof with its own ears. The first of 16 hour-long "Orchestras of the World" programs will go out over some 250 U.S. radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic. The others will carry U.S. listeners on a 1,400-mile journey across less familiar territory-from the Danish Radio Symphony to the State Symphony of Greece...