Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineer Hoover went to Australia, sent an important cable, returned to Monterey, went (because of the hurry) to a Catholic priest, and sailed away to China with Lou Henry Hoover, are details familiar to all since the campaign. Mrs. Hoover moves steadily through his background from then on. At Tientsin during the Boxer Uprising, she nursed the wounded at the club, scooting past open corners of the compound on a bicycle while bullets whizzed above...
...interest in a copartnership and became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce. . . . The fact that we had to sell what we produced did not change the nature of our business from that of producer to that of trade or commerce. ... I was familiar with the statute, the manifest purpose of which I approve...
...ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal oil, but methyl is generally employed. Thus when unskillful persons unsuccessfully attempt to take the denaturing out of denatured alcohol, the familiar phenomena of wood alcohol poisoning usually result. Ethyl alcohol can theoretically be made from any sugar, cellulose or starch-Germany, for instance, has a potato-alcohol industry-but in the U. S. alcohol is usually derived from sugar-cane molasses, cheap and easily fermentable. Uses. During 1928 (fiscal year ending...
...valued counsellor in the affairs of the University, his characteristic influence was as he would have wished it upon the religious life of the place. His earlier residence as a clergyman in Boston had made him familiar with our situation. It was, however, his great work as bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Philippines from 1901 to 1918, and then his term as chief of the Chaplain Service of the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918-1919, his long conflict with the opium traffic, his enthusiastic interest in international affairs, which made the students feel...
...Familiar to Manhattanites, cherished by them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...