Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rambling Senate speech larded with Familiar Quotations from Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Douglas MacArthur, Abraham Lincoln and Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Republican leader reiterated his fear that the reapportionment of state legislatures entirely on the basis of population would lead to their domination by "the bosses of the big-city political machines." Instead, Dirksen proposed, the voters in any state should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to elect one chamber on the basis of geographical or political subdivisions...
...freshman game with Brown had a familiar ring, as the Brownie hurier walked the winning run in the ninth inning to give the Yardlings a 7-6 triumph. Also yesterday afternoon, the Harvard J.V. handed the M.I.T. freshmen a 7-1 defeat. Pitching Summary lp r er h bb so Lincoln 5 5 2 5 0 3 Munzel 1 0 0 1 0 0 Sersich (L) 2 1 1 2 0 1 McCandlish...
Once it sees the familiar home soil however, the defense should return to its solid self. A healthy Rick Loomis will certainly bolster that probability...
...devote half of their course work to concentration requirements, would welcome having an extra course with which to experiment. Juniors and seniors often regret that they have had little time to sample courses totally unrelated to their field of concentration or to satisfy their curiosity about the newest, least familiar fields like Visual Studies, Architectural Sciences, and Statistics...
...Russians say it's a dry cold," Crosby adds informatively. So much for insight into the Soviet character. While a multiple sound track booms musical punctuation, the movie visits several dazzling acts at the Moscow Circus, peeks at the shipboard dissection of a giant whale, lingers over the familiar, gravity-defying virtuosity of the Moiseyev dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet...