Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable person thinks that this is going to destroy competent corporations or impair business as a whole. Taxes on 95% of our corporations are actually reduced...
Such was Dr. Spearman's procedure. Some 1,200 persons were subjected to no less than 94 tests-for aptitude in the arts and sciences, for handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result...
...century later Phi Beta Kappa gave up its secrets to become a national honorary scholastic society. Only the first part of the salute, a handshake with the ring and little fingers folded back in the palm of the hand, remained as an induction ceremony. Soon there was no living person who knew what followed the handshake in the original salute...
West Virginia. Small (enrollment 3,069) West Virginia University last week announced the appointment as its president of "the outstanding person in the field of education throughout the country." This person was identified as Chauncey Samuel Boucher, U. S. historian and dean of the College at the University of Chicago where he is No. 2 Man of Robert Maynard Hutchins' Chicago Plan...
...first woman member of any U. S. exchange when she bought a seat on the New York Cocoa Exchange for $2,700. She announced that she would not leave Milwaukee to do her trading in Manhattan although the Exchange requires all trading to be done by members in person. Instead she will take advantage of Exchange rules which permit a member's agent to buy cocoa beans through a floor broker at a saving of 50% of commission. Said Cocoa Trader Schoenleber: "Every leading chocolate company has a seat on the Exchange. Ours was taken out in my name simply...