Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frost will discuss chiefly the third class this evening, and will attempt to explain whether wisdom expressed in one's writing is the quality most to be desired in a person who produces creative literature...
Laws against performing abortions vary from Mississippi, "where an abortion is permitted by any person who acts on advice of a physician," to New Hampshire, "where any person who wilfully administers a drug or uses an instrument to procure an abortion is punished by fine or imprisonment...
...case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town practice this will not be feasible. Here the necessary procedures will often have to be carried out either in the doctor...
Secretary Morgenthau said he had had "an awful time with free riders." In Wall Street parlance a "free rider" is a person who buys a new issue not for investment but for the speculative possibility of immediately selling it in the open market at a profit. For free riders the Treasury's long-term bonds turned out to be a joy ride, since they promptly rose more" than 1½% above the offering price...
While most novelists attempt to develop character, few have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily hit upon a working solution of this dilemma in "A Tree Grown Straight" and, incidentally, has written the best analysis of the problems of our generation...