Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like this column and would like it to appear at regular intervals, I wish you would let us know by letter or in person at our building, 14 Plympton Street. 176 words, I think that does the trick...
...drove to a filling station, called the Weyerhaeuser home in Tacoma, 20 miles away. No one answered. At last, after the filling station man had shut off his noisy air compressor, Farmer Bonifas made the police of Tacoma understand that he had on his hands the most sought-after person in the U. S. What should he do with him? Bring him home at once, barked the frantic police. Meantime, in the automobile outside, George heard newsboys yelling that his uncle had paid his kidnappers $200,000 night before, that apparently arrangements had thereafter become confused, for George...
Instead of pain normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...
...neck, slyly presses his thumb, first against the tip of the mastoid bone ("Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?"), then against the styloid process just below the ear, "Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?" With a sensitive person, sick or well, pressure on the styloid process will hurt keenly, whereas the hyposensitive will suffer not at all. Having thus fundamentally classified his patient, the diagnostician can then proceed to string symptoms on one of two lines of medical logic...
...revolution. Only after the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks does the narrative darken, become more ominous. Then casualty lists, accounts of atrocities replace the accounts of the first enthusiastic confusion. Maintaining an unflinching detachment, Author Chamberlin holds no person or party responsible, betrays indignation only when writing of the Red and White Terror and the execution of the Tsar and his family...