Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been condemned. Without adequate heating equipment and lacking in such necessities as sufficient showers and drying rooms, the buildings used present a sorry contrast to those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable for the encounter that faces them...
...ordinary was going on was when the proctor at the Psychochemistry X exam noticed that there was one more man in the room than was enrolled in the course. Suspicious of some plot on the part of one of his rivals in the phlegtobotany department, he watched for an unfamiliar face as the students came up to leave their books. Just as the throng about the desk was greatest, he caught a glimpse of the strange face. It was only a glimpse, and before he could say a word it was lost in the crowd...
...free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron who shudders at the drinking-orgy reports from the campuses in her magazine are sisters under the skin in sharing...
...most graduates football games, and particularly the Yale game, offer the most desirable means of direct contact with Harvard. Transformations like that in the Yale Bowl six weeks ago are the only visible and memorable representation of current Harvard life to many unfamiliar with general University advance. There seems to be no reason why Harvard should not have accommodations for the graduates who flood the ticket office with applications in losing seasons as well as in winning ones...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...