Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well Leader, A sprinkling of new faces will also be there. In the House will appear Representative Verner Wright Main of Michigan, whose election as an advocate of the Townsend Plan lately stirred politicians (TIME, Dec. 30). The Senate will have a new Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead...
...average person wrongly guessed his time allotment for the following day by a total of five hours. Men were better prophets than women, married people better than single. A steady increase in accuracy of prediction was noted with advancing age. Subjects earning $40 to $50 per week guessed what they would do better than those earning less or more. There was a general tendency to overestimate the time devoted to reading, chatting, cinema and other recreation, and to underestimate that consumed by humdrum activities-sleep, work, rest, transportation, shopping, personal care. Protestants predicted themselves better than Catholics, and Catholics better...
...date the artist has produced some 800 works-oils, water colors, etchings. Record price for Marin water colors was reached in 1928, when one went for $6,100. Yet Dealer Stieglitz has let some go for as little as $100 apiece, provided he thought the purchaser a worthy person who could not afford more...
...voted "Yes" above, how much should be paid monthly to each single person $-? How much monthly to a husband and wife $-? What age should a person be to qualify for an old-age pension...
...long-distance interstate telephone calls average about 40% lower than day rates, go into effect at 7 p. m., apply to station-to-station calls only. In a new schedule effective Jan. 15, American Telephone & Telegraph proposes to extend slack-time discounts in approximately the same ratio to person-to-person calls. All discounts will also be extended to Sunday daytime traffic, night rates applying from 7 p. m. Saturday to 4:30 a. m. Monday...