Word: unfamiliarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth-eaten wing-feathers...
...about the surface. Where he was swimming, the water was clear and the reefs inhabited by fish such as you see in Nassau through a glass bottom boat. The trick is to shoot the spear when you espy a large game. Unhappily, he mistook his right foot for an unfamiliar species the first time he shot, and he was reluctant to try again...
Another piece of frankness unfamiliar to Oriental diplomacy bobbed up last week when word reached Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous...
Beginning at 8.15 o'clock tonight, a concert of unfamiliar music will be presented by the Harvard Music Club in Paine Hall. Two works will be played in memory of eminent composers who died this year: "Mythes" for violin and piano by Szymanowski and three pieces for piano and oboe by Foote...
...rowing theory, he devised his own means of putting it into practice. He raised the rigging in the boat to give more clearance above his oarsmen's thighs, thus permitting more leg power. He cut short the "lay-back," theretofore considered the most essential part of the stroke. Unfamiliar with nautical terms, Connibear coached his crews in baseball slang. Before his first big race, the Washington faculty tried to have him ousted. After it, when Washington had beaten California, he was a Washington hero...