Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnish a new and appropriate form of currency to circulate vicariously for the silver that the Treasury is buying in quantity (see p. 17) Secretary Morgenthau last week announced a new form of silver certificate. The same size as present dollar bills, it will be distinguished by an unfamiliar but appropriate design. On the back it will bear the well-known obverse likeness of the Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch of olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will...
...gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...
...Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass but no electric charge, like the hypothetical neutrino or the familiar neutron. Another bridge indicated the existence of a totally unfamiliar particle, having electric charge but no mass whatever. Particles like protons and electrons, having both mass and charge, seemed to Einstein to represent "two-bridge problems"-two points of space connecting the two space-sheets. The gentle professor was relieved to find that his new mathematics dredged up no particles...
...that the bill would be passed-not as originally drafted giving the Securities & Exchange Commission the right to exterminate any holding company but as a fairly healthy measure of reform. Then late one afternoon last week when no Senator desired to hear any more on the subject, an unfamiliar voice piped...
...Administration measures. Indeed the Senate had only heard that voice once before, in March year ago, when it delivered a short homily in favor of Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence Waterway proposal. Senators who had been on the point of leaving the Chamber tarried to hear that unfamiliar sound...