Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian carpenter named Martin Lie, leaving his wife and a small son, went off to the fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
...Prokofiev's Second String Quartet by the Gordon String Quartet, and Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata and Our Town Suite by Leo Smit-were high quality recordings, but nothing to make other record companies change their ways. Concert Hall's virtue was its decision to record unfamiliar music...
...reasons were given by the committee for this decision. The first was the impracticability of holding elections among Freshmen unfamiliar with each other and therefor lacking a basis on which to select representatives...
Faced with the difficulty of a crowd that is largely unfamiliar with Harvard cheers and songs, Spear plans to start slowly in developing a cheering section. Songs and cheers will be included in the program at tomorrow's game for the benefit of newcomers and those who were here throughout the wartime doldrums...
These are all names with which the average football follower is totally unfamiliar (except, of course, for Trojanowski) and arguments will undoubtedly be heard that the Connecticut squad is merely a good small team which has built up an excellent record against mediocre elevens of its own size. Amateur prognosticators can turn out copy by the reams on such introspective discussion, but all question and hypotheses can better wait until Saturday afternoon, when an estimated 15,000 experts will be on hand to see for themselves...