Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...
Reunion. In Zanesville, Ohio, Robert McNutt Campbell, 29, who landed in the city jail on a drunkenness charge, was surprised to see a familiar face in the adjoining cell: his father, whom he had not seen since...
...spirited pacing and exaggeration Director Montgomery has made the most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...
...catch the farmer's eye, Merrill Lynch posted stock certificates of companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...
...Some of the more familiar targets for trustbusters, according to the FTC survey, showed a much greater spread in control. U.S. Steel, for example, owned only 28.6% of the steel industry's net capital assets...