Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing on fast unfamiliar courts, Coach Jack Barnaby's squad won nine games out of twenty. Captain Jim McKittrick again swept his games...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
...Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful reference book but a first-rate bit of reading...
...Freshman, newly arrived at Harvard, cannot be expected to know what problems he must ask his adviser about. Distribution rulings are for him so much fine type in the course catalogue; and the whole task of selecting a program presents him with what is generally an unfamiliar difficulty. Often such a simple problem as meeting the language requirement throws the Freshman for a loss; 72 upperclassmen were on language pro at the time this penalty was abolished two weeks ago, and at least some of this difficulty came from improper planning in the freshman year...
...Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges of political prejudice and other angry words when University Hall invoked certain unfamiliar rules against the New Student magazine, which was already set up in type...