Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine has concluded: "The ability to exercise clairvoyant and telepathic perception has been fairly well shown to be a natural capacity of the human species." He finds that, like manual dexterity, this ability increases with practice, is diminished by illness, fatigue, drowsiness, narcotic drugs. He finds that most persons have the ability in some degree, that at least one person in four has it in marked degree...
Like all extended contests, the Post's started out to be childishly, incredibly simple. The object was to choose which of several given names best fitted a cartoon drawn by John Held Jr. A new cartoon appeared every weekday for ten weeks. The person submitting the "best or most appropriate names" to the 60 drawings in the series was to get the first prize, $10,000. However, as the contest wore on, the pictures became more and more obscure, the lists of names longer and longer, until several names seemed equally appropriate. That reduced the possibility of ties. Result...
Anitra's Dance (M. E. Bute) is five minutes of film in which appears no person, no utilitarian thing. It is an attempt to provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...
...formal statement CBS gave its position thus: "Editorial responsibility for what the Columbia Broadcasting System puts out over the air must be assumed, and is assumed, by Columbia itself. In deciding what is proper for us to broadcast, we must always bear in mind that broadcasting reaches persons of widely varying age levels and reaches them in family and social groups of almost every conceivable assortment. For this reason we do not believe that it is either wise or necessary to discuss, and sometimes even to mention, some things which may more properly be discussed in print, where each person...
...bondholder tried to appear in person, only to be politely turned away at the door. Another uninvited guest appeared but he was allowed in. He was Arthur Curtiss James, largest individual owner of railroad stocks in the U. S. Chairman of Western Pacific, dapper, bearded Mr. James has long been trying to merge his carrier with...