Word: unfamiliarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof...
Under the spur of hard times and the public chant of "It's your own fault." U. S. railroads have lately emerged in the unfamiliar role of expert merchandisers. They have invoked the ancient principle of price-cutting to get business. They are building trains which seem to have been conceived in the fanciful pages of Popular Mechanics. And some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them. Led by Pennsylvania R. R., a group of eastern carriers went to their customers last week with a collection...
...distant nebulae in their spectroscopes, astronomers got spectrum lines which they could assign to no known element. Accordingly they created by mutual consent a new element, called it "nebulium," and doubted that it existed. Years later they found "nebulium" to "be their familiar friends oxygen and nitrogen, ionized into unfamiliar atomic states...
...brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious Chinese, charged the city garrison's general with having sold...
...interest in nature and a curiosity as to how the earth's features were formed, he should appreciate and enjoy Professor Mather's course. Of course, as in all elementary sciences the new and unfamiliar technique to be mastered and the arbitrary manner of setting forth principles and facts to be memorized is apt to repel the would be scientist. In spite of the popular conceptions of geologists in boy scout uniforms, hammering at rocks or partly fossilized among their dried bones and museum specimens, this is one of the most stimulating of the sciences. It teaches one to think...