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Word: familiarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save the consumer some money on his bills, but it also seemed inevitable that he would have to pay it back to the Government on income-tax day-and a great deal more besides, if bureaucracy ran true to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Farm Pharmacy | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...surprise. The men are the same, in almost every position, that started all last year. Stuffy has moved Ernle Mannino to third base, where his fielding Wednesday was extraordinary. Hal Moffie is filling in for still-ailing Myles Huntington at second. These three are new; the others are familiar. Yet their performance certainly seems a cut above last year...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...bring its two authors, Thomas Coley and William Roerick, a steady income for many years to come, if not from Broadway at least from the hundreds of Little Theater productions it seems surely slated for. "The Happiest Years" is one of those little domestic comedies that ring enough familiar bells in everyone to give a warm feeling of recognition and remembrance...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...look for a series of familiar tunes on the records of the new Band record album. They aren't there. Except for 'Wintergreen' and Yale medley, everything is new; the first album handled the ivy-covered schools, leaving Brown, Columbia, and Cornell for the new 6-side product...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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