Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday being Wednesday, Art Valpey put the Harvard football team through its usual mid-week practice session. This time it was with an eye toward checking errors of execution, sharpening the timing of the squad in general, and of men playing unfamiliar positions in particular...
...fact of the matter is that R.T. still hasn't had a fair test. Construction still is under progress, commuters, remain unfamiliar with the system, and pedestrians are all too often downright hostile and uncooperative. But barring a gang war between can companies, the Harvard Square battleground should soon develop into merely another busy, but otherwise normal, intersection. Although not as tasty as Tono Bungay, rotary traffic should effect more material results...
...average gallerygoer the majority of the exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
...record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week's end, to get Dorothy to appear in person on his next show...
...reason for sticking to the same painter-if he is a good painter; he knows the history of one's face as well as the expression assumed for the sitting-an expression which is sometimes a defensive or bogus one when exposed to the sustained scrutiny of an unfamiliar pair of eyes on the other side of the easel...