Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swayed there, preening himself. With the aid of the mirror he cast an eye over the unfamiliar territory at the nape of his neck, and noted with pleasure that the hair removed from that vicinity by a crew cut last October was already coming in nicely. His eyes, too, be noticed. They drooped at just the right angle for a fellow who's studying up until eleven or twelve at night to keep from getting "bounced out of the old place...
...recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same good-natured...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...
Where, by the way, did Mr. De Varon for his article, "And Now the Poor Farmer" discover "this strange and slithy credit system"? Our experts in Money and Banking have confessed themselves unfamiliar with this mechanism. Professor Haring's thesis would seem to be that the Vargas regime is not fascist but is simply an "old-fashioned South American dictatorship...
...tired Vagabond who hit the hay that evening, but the fever of Mexico was already in him, and he knew the days to come were to be filled with events worthy of an entirely unfamiliar land...