Word: unfamiliarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgical cases, in unfamiliar surroundings, see that a careful count of all sponges is kept all the time, and be sure that the count is verified before closing the incision...
...corporate expansion in the U. S. between 1900 and 1930. The Lords of Creation concentrates principally on the change from a laissez-faire economy to one dominated by gigantic trusts, but is studded with brief characterizations of the leading financiers of the period and enlivened with colorful items of unfamiliar information. The result is an uneven book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with the early years, which grows increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression. To characterize the early period Author Allen describes the Harriman-Hill battle over...
...attack was that the instructors, distinguished specialists in particular fields, were forced to prostitute their art to the mediocrity of their disciples. It was claimed that the lives of artists were reduced to drudgery because they had to appraise scribblings in lines of writing with which they were unfamiliar. The masters were doomed to drabness, the department to emasculation. But if ever this assault was justified, it is not now. Certain professors, like Mr. Hillyer, are capable judges of all forms of writing. Others who feel their jurisdiction limited, such as Mr. DeVoto, exclude certain forms, as he does poetry...
This morning the Vagabond embarks on his first journey of the season. For fear there are those young ones as yet unfamiliar with his ways, a happy word of counsel may not be out of place. Sagmus, his old friend and philosopher, is wont to take the Vagabond under his warm wing. Not to reform, mind you, for the philosopher is a bit of a vagrant himself, but to befriend with wisdom. And the Vagabond seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination...
...greatest newspapers in the world. Fortnight later Kurt Max Oswald Simon, 52, an able publisher without a country or a publication, arrived in Mamaroneck, N. Y. to marry Mrs. Therese Heilner Prince, a well-to-do U. S. widow of 66. Last week, having thoroughly prospected the odd and unfamiliar U. S. publishing scene, dapper, chunky little Dr. Simon picked a magazine to publish. His choice was the literate, unprofitable monthly Story, which in four years has attained the reputation of being 'the most distinguished short story magazine in the world...