Polytechnical education, which emphasizes familiarizing children with the important branches of production and acquainting them with first-hand practical experience, was widely introduced by Soviet educational advisers.
In 1933 he shifted his research interests to the maturing field of nuclear physics, familiarizing himself with the literature and conducting experiments.
As a youth he studied Quechua music and customs as well as familiarizing himself with the dominant Spanish culture.
He spent a year in Berlin painting and familiarizing himself with new trends in art by artists associated with the Der Sturm Gallery.
Simulation also is useful for review and for familiarizing pilots with new modifications to existing craft.
The earliest navigators probably learned to steer their ships between distant ports by familiarizing themselves with the sequences of intervening landmarks.
The new chronicler prepared himself for his task by studying the contents of the royal archives and by traveling around the kingdom examining monastic and other records, looking at epitaphs and familiarizing himself with the topography of towns and battlefields.
CSA administrators launched the contest last year as a means of familiarizing their members with the strange green orbs.
"I spent most of my time familiarizing myself with the technology and building game-development tools.
Familiarizing yourself with the new members of your local nine is one of the rites of spring, but looking to roster changes for indications of a team's performance can be tricky business.
Having signed recently with Roger Penske Racing for the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup season, A.J. Allmendinger might have been expected to pass the weeks before the Daytona 500, on Feb. 26, by visualizing races, holding conference calls with his pit crew and familiarizing himself with his new racecar.
