Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King shepherded his family back in. Someone spied Queen Mary in a courtyard below. "We want Queen Mary!" the crowd shouted, but the Queen Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper story window they caught sight of a familiar face. Peering from behind a dressing-table mirror, Princess Elizabeth was taking one last peek at her future subjects before the great day was done. The crowd howled and the Princess waved. As the throngs finally dispersed, an elderly lady sighed with satisfaction. "Well," she said, "they certainly looked very glad...
Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...
Starting time will find Bob Forsythe and Jim Graham alongside Davis on the defense. Hans Estin with Dewey and Smith will make up the midfield trio and Dick Bezanson will aid Hurley and Rogers on the attack. Bill "Algie" Allen will be in his familiar spot in the nets...
What is an "educated man?" At the centennial of New York's City College last week, a British civil servant raised the familiar question and hazarded an unfamiliar answer. Sidney Herbert Wood, 63, retiring principal assistant secretary of the Ministry of Education, thought there were three "acid tests...
California's American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (the "AH Line") had a new president last week. But the name was old and familiar. Lewis A. Lapham, 38, is the lean, twinkling son of San Francisco's tubby, twinkling Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15) and grandson and great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock...