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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascertained I am the only person of that name in Vancouver and I did not write the letter in question, although I have been the recipient of a number of rather abusive letters in connection therewith. It would appear that the writer of the letter referred to above was too cowardly to sign his own name and used mine instead, therefore I would be glad if you would kindly publish this letter of explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Screeno" each theatregoer is given a different card. As numbers are called out each theatregoer marks off such as are on his card. The person who first exhibits a card on which five of the numbers thus called compose a row, wins a prize. In "Screeno" the numbers are determined by a dial and spinning pointer which is projected on the screen.-ED. "Finance" v. "Monopoly" Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Mendel had failed as a parish priest because he could not bear to go near a sick or suffering person. At the monastery he did better. Breeders already knew that the characteristics of offspring were not simple mixtures of parental features, but they did not know why. Working with garden peas, Mendel found that when he crossed a tall pea with a dwarf, all the first generation were tall. In the second generation (self-fertilized) there were three times as many tall plants as dwarfs, and none of intermediate stature. From this and a mass of other results which made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pea to Pennsylvania | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Monday, February 24, is the last day upon which courses beginning in the second half year may be changed (dropped or added) without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room C, University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

Eleven years ago the directors of International Paper Co. plucked Archibald Robertson Graustein from a big Boston law firm, made him head of the world's biggest paper company at 39. Five years later President Graustein found love in the person of one Claire Patton, who was earning a modest living as a hostess in Manhattan's democratic Roseland Dance Hall. He whisked her off to Texas, married her. By this time Mr. Graustein's company was called International Paper & Power, and it was more a power company than paper company. Last week, having sloughed off most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Graustein Out | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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