Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dave" Kirkwood (Clydeside Laborite) protested against "all the humbug that's going on." He thought the Prince should visit the workshops and mines and acquaint himself with the real conditions of workingmen's lives, not with those that had been prepared...
...religious history, in religions psychology, in comparative religions, and in the philosophy of religion. Religion, curricularly speaking, has been approached by highly diverse and specialized avenues. For the student whose researches lead him deep into the questions and quarrels of religious faiths, there has long existed an opportunity to acquaint himself thoroughly in these fields...
...especially disconcerting when a new flood of light is thrown upon the mystories of University administration--not from within, to be sure--but from some obscure outpost of civilization, such as Mansfield, Ohio. The Mansfield High School paper. The Hyphonerian, full of the praiseworthy ambition to acquaint its students with the best that is known and thought in the world, conceived the idea of publishing short biographical and descriptive notes upon the leading universities, "especially in Ohio". Harvard is accorded a prominent place. Among details more or less known to Harvard men, though new to young Ohionese, the following sentences...
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY?Francis L. Wellman ?Macmillan ($4.00). This volume is addressed "to the tens of thousands of men that are called each year to serve their first term in the jury box." Its object is stated by Author Wellman to be "to acquaint jurors with the profound importance and dignity of their membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth...
...movement is part of a statewide drive to secure the cooperation of college men in furthering Republican principles of government. It will give men an unusual opportunity to prepare for a public career and will acquaint them with men from other colleges in Massachusetts who are interested in the same thing...