Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zeigler, throwing so hard they split one of the 35-pound weights in two, added 10 fat points to the Crimson total with a one-two-three performance. Wes Flint, newly-elected captain, scored an easy win in the 60-yard high hurdles and finished second in the unfamiliar 80-yard lows. Pete Harwood had no trouble winning the pole vault, stopping at 12 feet 9 inches...
...From a new perspective, at a time when every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits to a tragic disintegration which Chaplin himself hardly ever surpassed. The peasant's face, his suddenly unfamiliar country and the roar of the rickety bomber, throughout this beautifully filmed scene, combine to make a heart-tearing embodiment of man's predicament and man's hope...
...call-long distance from a man named Nicholas P. Daphne-came through at midnight. Silver-maned Frank Lloyd Wright struggled out of bed to answer it, heard an unfamiliar voice at the other end of the wire saying: "I've got the finest site, in the heart of San Francisco, and I want the finest mortuary in the world. So I figure," the voice pursued, "I need the finest architect in the world...
...living (her English school still pays her salary, which comes to a scant $25 a week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means banana...
...Federal aid, but no federal interference," was the opinion of B. U. President Marsh. Also unfamiliar with President Conant's remarks, he stated, however, that government help is needed "in some places," and felt that it will exert a salutary influence as long as the actual educational reins remain in the hands of the local authorities...