Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There must still be undergraduates who not only read but think, and express their thoughts in simple, clear and forceful language. It cannot be that all the men who think have gone to the war, or, going, are treasuring their thoughts for slim posthumous volumes of the now familiar type. If things worth printing are still written in Cambridge, the Advocate editors still fail, after all the scolding they have been given of late, to lay eager hands upon the desirable manuscripts. With the Monthly eliminated, the Advocate ought to be able to get all of the best that Harvard...
Miss Wyman and Mr. Brockway, who have visited the Kentucky mountain region for the purpose of becoming familiar with its folk songs, gathered their ballads direct from the people themselves, and have reproduced them true to the life with all of the rough and simple mountain spirit. Their collection of ballads was published in 1916, entitled "Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains...
...This year the tidal flats which are their favorite feeding places have been iced up far below their usual limits. It may well be that they have gone farther south in unusual numbers, and are merely taking a brief trip up the coast for a "look in" on more familiar feeding places...
...world, and at least as much space would be needed to describe with any completeness the vast body of scientific knowledge and skill used in the engineering feats that are witnessed almost daily when a drive is in progress. To move forward the vast armies with which we are familiar in the war conditions of today and to move them forward, as is, of course, necessary, with proper speed and with proper support, is in itself a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every phase the exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence...
...seems to me that the greatest boon the war has already given to us in America is a realization that our men must all be physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...