Word: familiars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of the early summer evening the new buildings along the Charles were neither familiar nor sentimental objects. I had never understood why they were jammed so closely together, or why they had so many chimneys...
...Sources of Modern Painting." Hung side by side were selected modern paintings from Manet to Dali and the i) older European pictures, 2) primitive pictures, 3) ancient pictures, 4) Japanese prints or 5) photographs with which they were definitely linked in style. No mere repetition of the now familiar facts and Grade A names, the show included such juxtapositions as an early Gauguin and a Kate
This discovery has already brought into play new words, familiar in other fields of science but not so in atomic physics. The splitting of the uranium nucleus is described as a "fission," which, in biology, means division of an organism into two or more parts. The big nucleus has been compared to a "droplet." When a neutron of the right energy strikes it, the new energy is shared by all the components of the nucleus so that the "surface tension" fails to hold it together. Therefore it splits...
...paid $2,000,000 a year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even more (the New York American lost around $1,000,000 a year), and real-estate values had toppled. Hearst was hopelessly...
...agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase of physical properties...