Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continuing the successful first quarter century of the Club's history, the inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...
...most significant part of Mr. Kahn's book comes in the foreword by Thomas Mann. The venerable German writer testifies "that I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency'. . .. that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what follows fascism...
Like the other U.S. and foreign newsmen assigned to cover the Bogota Conference, Dozier had not bargained for an insurrection to boot. Once it was under way, however, he-and they-faced the familiar reporter's problem of how to get their copy out on a big, fast-breaking story in which national security was (or was thought to be) involved...
...boom in farm land reached a familiar milestone. After nine years of steady climbing, said the Department of Agriculture, farmland prices had finally hit the peak reached in the post-World War I land boom. Prices rose 7% last year to 205 (1935-1939 equals 100), the 1920 top. And in 32 states, particularly in the southwest where irrigation had increased productivity, land values had long overshot their post-World War I mark...
...Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. "If you don't know Billings and Stover," said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really was a nightman ready to fill prescriptions. The nightman has since left, but little else about...