Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good Son-In-Law. A valued ally to enraged Dedjazmatch Nassibu last week appeared in the person of Emperor Haile Selassie's favorite son-in-law, swart, smart, bearded little Ras Desta Demtu. Two years ago he traveled to the U. S., paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General...
...Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact and disarming Scottish directness...
...superior child grows fitfully. During the first two years he grows chiefly in length. The next four years he broadens out. He shoots up again during puberty (12 to 14 years), broadens again during adolescence. His body ripens unequally during those years. At 6, a person's brain is as big as it ever will...
Perhaps, though, Mr. Williams has missed the point. No sane person ever thought that $50,000,000 could solve the problems of five to six million unemployed youths. Ten dollars a head, on the other hand, is high enough a price to pay for the huge Youth vote in 1936. But for this, it seems, a better tool than sincere Mr. Williams would have been a Farley, a Curley, or a Tague...
...course of a day, 11,340 pieces of bread are consumed in the University Dining Halls, or an average of 2.47 pieces per person, according to the latest flood of statistics...