Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katerina Linos '00, who participated in Putnam's undergraduate seminar last year, agrees that the class gains a new dimension if the instructor is intimately familiar with his field...
Gore knew the shortcuts around campus and knew the best places to eat in the Square--after all, he is familiar with the territory...
Narayanamurti says he's been familiar with minority issues in academics since he came to the United States from India as a graduate student at Cornell 38 years...
Fernandez says he is familiar with the factory. About 500 people are employed there, and it is expanding, he says...
Webster Groves students' approach to romance may puzzle their parents, but it is familiar to any student of anthropology. Childhood friendships that naturally flow into sex as girls and boys mature are a common pattern in tribal societies, in which everyone knows everyone else and sexuality is taken in stride. So are sexual practices designed to avoid pregnancy, and a lack of desire to spend time with one's partner to the exclusion of other young people--just as at Webster Groves. Dating is a modern invention, which makes sense only among large groups of people who do not know...