Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...er.ter directly, but for which intense and frustrated family feeling still provided the guiding theme. A 468-page chronicle that begins 'strongly, drifts to an unconvincing conclusion, Cradle of Life belongs in the ran!: of those books that are interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant homes in wild regions. As long as funds were regularly provided for their upkeep...
...brief space of less than a week Coach McDonald faces the overwhelming task of patching a lineup from 60 entirely unfamiliar faces and pairs of feet...
Having put in a couple of years with FERA, I am not unfamiliar with the ability of governmental purchasing agents to buy up some awful monstrosities on perfectly normal purchase orders. In fact, if TIME will take the trouble to find out, we might discover that Farmer Hughes's son is using a small electric lamb-shearer for a razor...
Flying over unfamiliar U. S. terrain, many a private pilot without directional radio has been reassured, guided or saved from disaster by such terse signs as these, painted in black & orange in 12-ft. letters on the roofs of prominent barns, factories, warehouses, water tanks. Known as "air markers," they are normally visible from 4.000 ft., serve three purposes: 1) to identify the locale; 2) to give the north bearing; 3) to indicate, by a circle, arrow and numeral, the distance and direction of the nearest airport. By last week 58% of the U. S. was air-marked every...
...name of the biggest U. S. clockmaker has never appeared on the face of a U. S. clock-General Time Instruments, Inc. Last week for the first time this name appeared on the New York Stock Exchange. As unfamiliar to the average investor as to the average clock owner, GTI is known by its two chief subsidiaries, Western Clock Co. ("Big Ben") and Seth Thomas Clock Co. of Thomaston, Conn. These two old family enterprises were put together in 1930 to form the company which now accounts for one-third of the entire U. S. clock business. Instead of celebrating...