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Word: familiarization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atorgenics is a twentieth-century science, born and weaned in America's business world. The atorgenicist has a more familiar name. He is a public relations man, prophet and historian of the Social Ethic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slanguage in the Gray Flannel Century | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...seniors led the freshmen through the dark house, amid weird groans and rattling chains. When they came to the kitchen they briefly flashed a light on the hideous but familiar form that hung limply and moaned softly. All the freshmen agreed that the hanging man was the scariest spook of all. Midway in the fun Mrs. Stevens slipped into the kitchen with her camera to get a picture. She called to Sallee. There was no answer. She turned on her flashlight. Somehow, as he had moved his feet on the littered floor, Principal Sallee had slipped; the noose had worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNITIES: Something for the Kids | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...then Old Friend would have responded with the same quizzical glance, that now familiar look which implied so clearly that Vag was bats to be spending four years studying for nothing...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Further Trials of the Vagabond | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

...deal of criticism" from visitors, and went on to explain that "not conformity, but neatness" was the aim of the edict. That went without saying, and what the dean must have meant is that he prefers well-dressed conformity to a bunch of sloppy Joes or sloppy Elihus. Anyone familiar with New Haven knows that Yale has already achieved remarkable conformity without coats and ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ties for Elis | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...composes steadily every morning, and the wonder is that Cowell is as experimental now as he was when he was famed as a bad boy of U.S. music. "Every composition," he says, "is a fresh experiment, a mixture of the familiar and the new. I have more ideas now than I can ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Boy at 60 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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