Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking to have Generals Brown, Drum, Malone and Hagood testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee, and requesting that they be not restrained by the War Department from making full and frank answers. General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, replied that the officers named "will be instructed by me in person that they are to answer you freely, fully and frankly...
...great many Frenchmen the person and program of Léon Blum are so "abominable" that they can think of no other in France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...
...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...
...report stated that the upkeep of these sports cost the H.A.A. about $118 per person, whereas tennis, squash and swimming only cost about $18 per person. This argument was used as a reason for discontinuing the seven more expensive minor sports. But in counting the attendance and undergraduate participation in the latter sports, all those who played informally were included. Thus, every one who had signed for a squash court or tennis court was counted. It is estimated that if the seven affected minor, sports were revived about 15% of the student body would benefit...
...student who does not avail himself of the gymnasium or the athletic field is wasting his own money. Without learning to play one or two sports reasonably well a person's education is distinctly one-sided, and his enjoyment of later life will be impaired if he is unable to seek relaxation in some sort of competitive game. At Harvard the high $25 levy would be unnecessary, but ten dollars per person would more than pay for the seven minor sports, if the H.A.A. were permitted to carry out the plan...