Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the picturesque Ekwanok Country Club course, campus golfers from 30 colleges teed up in the 41st annual tournament for the Intercollegiate Golf Championship. Among the 145 contestants were a Vanderbilt and Walter Hagen Jr. But the names of most of America's top-flight college golfers were unfamiliar to U. S. galleries...
...Mullings had parked his car in front of a grocery store on the main street of Imperial, Calif. Mrs. Mullings and the two children were crossing the sidewalk when Mullings, startled by an unfamiliar noise, looked up, saw the wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow...
...whole unfamiliar possibilities. Hitherto, when the U. S. has considered (and almost unanimously rejected) the possibility of itself going to war, it has thought in terms of fighting beside the Allies in Europe. But if an outcome of the war in Europe is imminent...
Although Freshmen are notoriously unfamiliar with their academic surroundings they are as Seniors when compared with the timid individual who next fall will enter these sacred precincts. No sooner has each poor, benighted lad gone through the ordeal of Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the college of his choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring...
...River Plate, raiders of the Altmark. Warmly he lauded the Air Force; women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away the concessions they had won in years of picket and strike; farmers, plowing shorthanded, clerks lending their savings, children leaving their homes...