Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest, therefore, that some interested person in each House and the Yard dormitories post this letter and a petition to be signed, so that the general interest of the College can be determined...
...Francisco, Stunt Diver Frank Gushing leaped 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge, was reported to be the second person to survive the jump. In the hospital with a sprained back, Gushing explained that he had been practicing for a jump he intended to make as a publicity stunt...
Young Attorney Aléman found success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
Said concurring Justice Stanley H. Fuld: "When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reached by radio today-often far greater in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper-it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is ... [as] harmful to the defamed person's reputation as a publication by writing...
...turned-up tails. They are native to the high, dry, hot & cold Andes. To protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...