Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McNiff," words almost synonymous with the end of a Widener book hunt, are not heard as often as usual these days. The reason is simple: Philip J. McNiff is seldom around to be asked. The familiar Reading Room superintendent is spending most of his time getting ready for the opening of Lamont Library--selecting the books, planning the interior, figuring out the systems of open and closed reserves. In short, he is getting the chance to put his ideas about the "service nature" of a college library into effect...
When the House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
...Albert Schweitzer, now 72, is still fighting death and ignorance in the jungle. So many highbrows (familiar with his scholarly books and his recordings of organ music) have referred to him as the greatest man in the world that he is sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George...
Section men are only too familiar with the ways in which many students in these beginning language courses show their resentment. One instructor admits that "five or six rebels can almost ruin a whole section." But section men are bound closely to the framework of these primary courses, and have little freedom to spruce them up with a varied mixture of conversation, composition, and philology...
...Never before," wrote Author West, "have people known the voice of one they have never seen as well as if he had been a husband or a brother or a close friend; and if they had foreseen such a miracle, they would not have imagined the familiar unknown would speak to them only to prophesy their death and ruin...