Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Young−"One of those familiar slices of French life, in this case spread with American butter...
...School of Business Administration. They shall be elected as hereinafter provided. The appointed members shall be one Senior, one other chosen at large in the discretion of the Committee, both to be selected by the committee not later than October 15 from those who habitually use and are most familiar with the Union, and one Freshman who shall be chosen not later than December...
Perhaps, the most pressing necessity before Harvard today is the awakening of intellectual initiative through the minimizing of compulsion and the maximizing of stimulation, by a Faculty, familiar with the needs of individuals rather than the requirements of groups. If properly applied, the tutorial system is a practical solution, a step toward the ideal...
...Significance. Elegant roguery on the high seas; brigs putting in from Guinea at midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times...
...that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead of men of wider reputation. But the difficulty is that the voters, the Alumni, fail to elect them: they prefer to vote for--candidates whose names and activities are familiar. The committee to suggest names has frequently tried the expedient only to find that men especially picked for the job fall by the wayside because not sufficiently well known...