Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After many years of Spanish, my English may be a bit dubious and probably is, as the only other English-speaking person here is a Jamaica Negro with an Oxford accent, which mixes me worse than...
Says a law of Pennsylvania: "Any person who shall make . . . any statement or rumor, untrue in fact, in reference to the solvency or derogatory to the financial condition of any National or State bank . or other financial institution in this Commonwealth . . . shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 and by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not to exceed five years...
...various medals that you see celebrities sporting about Cambridge, with the bright colored ribbon, signify what sort of delegate the person...
...however, the most striking evidence of the peculiar power of gold over Depression. The Philippines has not only a gold boom but also a mining stock boom, and last week its fine frenzy was augmented because it had virtually been given an official blessing by no less a person than strutty little Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth...
According to Dr. David Seabury, a group of English mathematicians recently reported "that in two centuries there will no longer be in Europe a single person in possession of his reason." In 1859 there was one insane person in every 535; by 1927 the proportion was down to one in 312; by 1929 it was one in 150. Some psychologists hold that everybody is crazy now. Dr. A. J. Desloges, director of hospitals for the insane for the province of Quebec, said that "the whole world would be insane in a quarter of a century," later revised his figures, made...