Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that greeted His Majesty's homecoming. There also awaited him a letter written by his mother Dowager Queen Marie to his divorced wife Princess Helen, which she in turn had sent to His Majesty. To Queen Marie's uncompromising letter, reputedly accusing her son of being "personally responsible for bad conditions in the country," Princess Helen reportedly added for King Carol's benefit the stinger: "This will show you what kind of a person you are and what your own mother thinks...
First, advised Dr. Stookey, "never lift the head of an injured person until he has told you whether he can move his legs or hands. If he cannot move his legs, his back is broken. If he cannot move his hands, his neck is broken. In both cases the spinal cord is injured. If you lift his head to give him a drink of water or if you fold him up to carry him, you inevitably grind the injured spinal cord between parts of the broken vertebrae and destroy any useful remnant of the cord which may have escaped injury...
...rule applies only to Houses; in all other College buildings the former regulation making it necessary to have an older person to act as chaperone is still in force...
...keep out of war is at best a complicated problem. Economic rivalry, racial and class hatred, propaganda of powerful interests, and the shibboleth of "national honor", all combine to warp the individual's judgment, especially in times of tension. The effect a single person can exercise in molding public opinion is pitifully small, so that the wish a person may have to be a force for peace is hampered by lack of knowledge of how to go about it, and by a feeling of futility in not getting very much done. Yet the most effective method of keeping the peace...
...Swift-remain the high points of the present edition, the new book is more intimate, less stilted, abounds in picturesque details of travelers' discomforts in the islands off Scotland in 1773. The Journal begins with its superb description of the Rambler at the age of 64: "His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency." It describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from...