Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently rumored in countries adjoining the Soviet Union last week that Dictator Stalin's hated onetime creature Yagoda had been arrested only upon demand of the Red Army in the person of its popular leader Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and Marshals Blucher, Yegorov, Tuckachevsky, and Budenny. Up to now the Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit...
...Student Council is meeting at 7:00 o'clock this evening. Anyone having business to bring before the session please telephone KIR 4613 or call in person at Claverly 29 by 6:45 o'clock...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...
...circulation or over; second: New York Herald Tribune; third: Des Moines Tribune. Among 365 newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation, first prize went to the Miami, Fla. Herald; second: Glendale, Calif. News Press; third: Hartford, Conn. Courant. †"Neotrist," invented from the Greek, meaning a person who stays young...
...Manila for $2,308. Last week United Air Lines announced interline agreements enabling it to sell flights around the world on one intricate yellow ticket in three sections each 17¼in. long at $2,255,66. A Boston surgeon named Dr. Reginald Dimock Margeson became the first person...