Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week the Federal Housing Administration had the biggest day of its career, insuring $750,000 in modernization loans, $1,260,000 in mortgages. FHAdministrator James Andrew Moffett called at the White House to present the good news in person, report on FHA's accomplishments to date: $351,000,000 worth of building business generated, 750,000 jobs created. His report made, Administrator Moffett handed President Roosevelt his resignation, effective in a fortnight...
...laboratories found that his body grew hot from an accumulation of high frequency waves when he stood in the path of a short-wave radio sending set. Out of that observation, Director Whitney developed the radiotherm, a boxlike device permeated by short waves in whose field a sick person might lie and develop a high artificial fever...
...York, like Boston, has taken thought for its soul, Evidently believing with Carlyle that the social hierarchy is based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden of responsibility...
...have found that we don't have to stand for this; if you refuse to do it, they don't call again, Furthermore, you usually don't know the person that lives three floors up in your entry, and there is no reason why you should do him a favor unless it's a life-and-death matter...