Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great, bloody battle around Suchow had produced a familiar pattern. Fast-moving Communist columns had swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
...name of Szymon Goldberg is not yet familiar to most U.S. concertgoers, but fanciers of fiddling have known it for years. They have willingly paid high prices for his imported records, though they could get U.S. recordings of better-known violinists for less. From Violinist Goldberg, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at 20, they heard none of the showy virtuosity that often gets between a composer and his audience. The secret of Szymon Goldberg's art is not its showmanship but its selflessness...
Christmas carols, marches, football songs, folksongs, and ballads will make up the two-hour program of familiar numbers. The Band probably will not repeat the numbers played at the recent "Drumbeats and song" concert...
Three members of the 1948 varsity football team may have to switch from the single wing system they are familiar with to the 'T' when they join teammates for two North-South games to be played Christmas...
...Chicago market researcher dug up last week this 1944 note from Senator Harry S. Truman: "Replying to your questionnaire regarding [political] polls, I am not familiar with them, don't know anything about them, and have no opinion on them except that most of them are inaccurate...