Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original translation was completeracy and included an excellent and entertaining glossary devoted to certain unfamiliar aspects of Greek and Roman ethies. The present version is highly incomplete, so much so as to make little or no sense in placers, and even the most inoffensive passages have suffered clumsy and injudicious pruning. And, since an attempt to purify Petronius is much the same as preparing an edition of Fanny Hill for high school use, this version is at best, a sad, sad, business...
...editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted for move strictly anatomical descriptions, it is difficult to understand how Petronius acquired so great a reputation for unblushing realism. If the reader is persuaded that the affection...
...From Canada, from the green teeming northern forests to Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...
...introducing the new tutorial regime the government of the University faced its most arduous task; acclimatization of an unfamiliar public to a strange order of things. It is fair to say that this initial opposition has been successfully broached and now the word tutorial is significant of a cooperative and not a one-side effort. The second barrier is that stressed by Mr. Aiken--the unification of the results of the tutorial system. As matters stand now the tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient...
Several times I have been on the verge of writing to TIME to ask if it would be possible to follow the names of great men or places unfamiliar to schoolchildren with the pronunciation. This would be very helpful in a class where TIME is used for current events, for if the pupil is uncertain he asks teacher-and who is he to know the correct pronunciation of a Chinese General's name, a Nicaraguan rebel's name, a famed War Minister of France, a potent German financier...