Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again in 1923, Governor Smith appointed him to the Public Service Commission. Than George R. Van Namee, Candidate Smith could have no friend more conversant with what it is about the Brown Derby, and under it, that wins votes...
Merrill, who is now a student in the School of Landscape Architecture, was connected with the Arboretum for seven years and is thoroughly familiar with its plants. He is conducting this expedition free of charge for those students who are interested in seeing this department of the University...
Retinue. Persons who consider Candidate Smith unfit for the Presidency on the ground that his entourage would disgrace the White House are mostly persons unacquainted with what a White House entourage is like or with those whom Candidate Smith would take with him. Persons familiar with his presidential frame of mind predict that he would content himself with no small-calibre men, certainly no Tammany favorites, for Cabinet positions. Of his oldtime personal retainers, only three seem indispensable...
...over and under you and inside you and through you. Relax, and give this PLAY a chance to strut its stuff-relax, don't worry because it's not like something else-relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'-like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this PLAY isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to despise it, let it try to despise you. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND...
This increase in production will take borax out of the idle rich class of chemicals and put it to work in many industries which previously could not afford it. Already its value is well known. It has long been a familiar household god in the kitchen, a mild antiseptic (boric acid) in the medicine chest. It keeps glass from cracking under the strain of change in temperature; is used therefore in making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price...