Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities and towns, most of them under 10,000 population, the unpretentious façade of J. C. Penney Co. is as familiar as Main Street. The farmer who goes to town usually stops at Penney's, and so do the townsfolk who don't mind cash & carrying from Penney's to save dollars. This habit of year-in & year-out buying at Penney's has built the company, which has stores in every state, into the third biggest U.S. retail chain. Last year, only Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sold more goods...
...investigation into Chairman David Lilienthal's two-year stewardship of the Atomic Energy Commission had all the familiar trappings of a congressional hazing. But the act was getting out of hand. Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor...
...only field for the Yankee dollar. Last year, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford* turned out automotive products worth $183 million, 95% of Canadian production. Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodyear and Goodrich did 60% of the rubber business, and other well-known U.S. manufacturing names were familiar throughout the provinces. In the latest DBS report Coca-Cola has 22 bottling works, Borden Co. 23 dairy processing plants, Swift 26 packinghouses...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
Repetition, in fact, is Director Sturges' specialty. Some of his gags, even the most familiar ones, are run through the camera four or five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...