Word: unfamiliar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before. There was no haze, but a sort of coppery burnish out of the air lit on flowing fields, rocks, the face of one house, and the cliff of limestone overhanging the river. The river gorge cut deep through the uplands. This light at this hour, so unfamiliar, brought into being a new world--painted expectant, empty, intense. This month was June...
...will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
This relay was the only event Coach Hal Ulen tried to win against the hapless Engineers. Otherwise, he benched all his first-line men or swam them in unfamiliar events...
...pack a lot of energy, and when they hit molecules in the mixture, they will tear them apart by breaking chemical bonds. Since the broken places are highly reactive, they will grab the nearest suitable atom, thus creating molecules of new compounds. They will speed up familiar reactions, start unfamiliar ones, and form compounds that the chemists have never seen before...
...brighter side, students in almost all fields who get their Ph.D.'s can very frequently secure placement in top rank schools usually through the GSAS appointment office. Initial salaries are likely to be disappointing to those unfamiliar with incomes in the field of education. Many men, after as many as six or seven years of graduate work, receive first-year incomes of well under...