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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better drivers are married and only moderately well-off. While a dark-eyed person is less subject to glare blindness than a blue-eyed one and therefore a better night driver, he is more apt to be colorblind, said Dr. DeSilva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Silva Puts Harvard Students With Delivery Boys as Road's Worst Drivers | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

Besides glare and color blindness a common defect of vision is "tunnel vision". A person falls in this catagory, if he cannot see more than 60 degrees to etiher side, when his eyes are focused straight ahead. Average range of vision is about 85 degrees on either side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Silva Puts Harvard Students With Delivery Boys as Road's Worst Drivers | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

After the first two shots Bilodeau went to the window to investigate and was showered with glass when the third projectile ploughed into the room. Steel-jacketed BB's which could seriously injure a person, were the bullets used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHARPSHOOTER SENDS SHOTS NARROWLY MISSING BILODEAU | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

...good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Mitzi Green is the main person in the show. She is still the funny-looking girl she was in the movies, and she still makes the same alarming faces. But she is especially endowed with the vivacity that characterizes the whole show. The rest of the giant cast is competent but undistinguished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/27/1937 | See Source »

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