Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their homes, saloons and dens of all kinds.- (y) They entice men into their indoor religious meetings.- (z) They reach them by attractive outdoor religious meetings: Booth, p. 244, and App. p. 66, 77.- (c) Methods are least expensive.- (1) Little training is necessary. - (x) Their workers are already familiar with the needs of their work. (2) Salaries and wages are the smallest possible.- (x) Soldiers serve for love not money...
...Knapp was an accomplished classical scholar, and was familiar with Spanish and especially with the antique Norse languages. He translated an important and bulky volume on Icelandic...
...tribunal which decided the Alabama claims was called a court in the treaty between the contracting powers. What would therefore be a permanent court of arbitration? Simply a court analagous to the familiar temporary bodies, analagous in all respects, except in its duration and jurisdiction. Why these two exceptions? The jurisdiction of the temporary courts was defined by the treaty which created them, the permanent court must have its jurisdiction defined by the teaty creating it. The classes of cases will be carefully marked out,- they will be questions of fact and questions of laws-excluding questions that involve questions...
...ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time is one of the strongest reasons for going back to Shakespeare's country and dwelling in it until we have learned to take familiar delight there. One of the best introductions to Shakespeare is his own play of Hamlet, for in spite of the romantic method he has there presented a type of man and a scheme of thought and feeling with which many of the young men of our own time are in intimate...
...well-chosen words, President Eliot thanked the commissioners on behalf of the club for coming to Cambridge and giving the students an opportunity of becoming familiar with the work of the commission...