Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent in charge of the Washington bureau], Hoover's right-hand man, and if TIME or FORTUNE ever really gets behind the scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally Hoover is two exceptions. First, he is the only person who graduated from George Washington University and then really amounted to something. Second, he is the only native of the District of Columbia-male native-who has ever amounted to anything. As a graduate of G.W. and an oldtime Columbian I find that the time for G.W. graduates and District...
Says Yale's Chemical Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas in his recent The Next Hundred, Years: "The energy requirements of the average person's body could be fulfilled by the daily consumption of less than a pound of soft coal. . . . My own advice, however, is: do not attempt a coal diet . . . hogs eat coal and enjoy it, but they also eat rattlesnakes and enjoy those, too."-ED. Planes & Weather...
Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
...products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations in the organic chemistry field, and they stuck to their subjects. Some Chemurgician subjects...
...renters: Buy a house with a big mortgage. If a person has good reasons for not buying, he should try for a long-term lease or at least one with graduated increases and including clauses covering redecorating and repairs...