Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Company commanders will assure themselves that their Sergeants, particularly those who are selected for this purpose, are thoroughly familiar with the duties of guides; namely, in maintaining the step, direction, trace and distance prescribed. Attention is particularly invited to paragraphs...
...Most students are already familiar with the Harvard Students' Employment Office which finds temporary positions for students during the course of their University work. The purpose of the Appointment Office of the Harvard Alumni Association on the other hand is to place graduates in permanent positions of either a business or technical character; everybody who has been connected with the University in any department is eligible to avail himself of the facilities which the Appointment Office affords. Although the office also helps the older and more experienced graduates, it wishes particularly to talk things over with...
...evidences of a professionalism made all too necessary in a country where commercial development has not yet left much room for deliberate, peaceful thought, nor the pursuance of artistic ideals. The market value of toil and ambition, of genius, of capacity for understanding, is what we are all most familiar with; so much so that it is easy to forget what the love of a task for itself really means. It is this amateur spirit that is cherished and guarded in our universities and schools. And it is this spirit that we, and especially those of us who have artistic...
...music, we need this enthusiasm today as in nothing else. For in music in this country our only very appreciable progress has been professional. professionalized music, bought and sold like any other commodity of luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part...
...world's supply of materials essential to life and comfort become exhausted, the importance of a knowledge of their chemical properties and relations grows. Never before in history, to take a familiar example, has the loss of metals to the world been accomplished so rapidly as today in the great war. And in proportion as these substances are used up, advance must be made toward the acquisition of suitable substitutes...