Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribal dignitaries, to show they were doing the Generalissimo the same honor they would do a Sultan, walked past him expressionless and with "glazed eyes"- thus symbolizing that the person so honored is too great to be looked in the face by persons less exalted...
...person drinking heavy water would be living only half as fast as a person drinking ordinary water. Who wants to live fast...
...came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door of their flat was half open. As I came nearer it closed-slowly and very quietly. But whoever was behind it kept out of sight. It looked as though the person inside had been waiting for someone...
...Like Sears and Ward in that it sells more products than any one person can name is big Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (gases & organic chemicals, metals & alloys, batteries). Like Sears and Ward, Carbide made more money in 1936 than in any other of its 19 years of corporate existence. Net profits were $36,852,000, a 35% increase over 1935. Noting that prosperity was in Carbide's every pore, President Jesse Jay Ricks last week wrote to 55,705 stockholders: "The quantity of oxygen sold in 1936 exceeded that of any previous year. . . . More motorists bought 'Eveready Prestone...
...Gogarty may go down in history merely as the original of Malachi Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, but if so he will go down fighting. Ever since the publication of James Joyce's big book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published...