Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Custody of the "Baron's" person was much desired by the police of Wilmington and Pittsburgh...
Though the evidence is not yet complete, it seems safe to conclude that Mr. Planalp exaggerated; that in each of the 110 millions of people in the U. S., there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome...
...With reference to your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...
...between M. Blériot's prediction and a prediction made almost simultaneously by U. S. Postmaster-General Harry S. New was virtually the contrast between European and U. S. air progress. "It is my sincere belief," said Mr. New earnestly, "that within a comparatively short time a person desiring to do so may leave New York by a ship carrying the air mail after the close of business hours Saturday and be in San Francisco or Los Angeles for the opening of business Monday morning." Mr. New was urging, as he had often urged before, that companies contracting...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...