Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the choice of a prominent person to introduce the speakers, the following paragraph from a BBC letter to the Oxford group is quoted...
...barbed wire to strew around the mines. But she is not rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress for tea. At 47 her dark hair is greying, the lines of her firm jaw broadening, but her blue-grey eyes have lost not a spark of their vitality and fervor...
Federal Cases. A generally similar issue is involved in whether Congress had the right to invalidate all contracts calling for payment of gold or its equivalent. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that he will argue the question in person before the Supreme Court. Since the lower courts have generally upheld the law, Mr. Cummings is probably not risking his reputation. One case involves a New Yorker who wants payment in the equivalent of gold for a $1,000 bond of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad-that is, 1,693 paper dollars valued at 59? each. Three similar gold cases involving...
Most audiences will spot the murderer easily, long before the Inspector (C. Aubrey Smith) breaks down a mendacious confession, obtains a truthful one, and benignly subscribes to the general idea that the killer was only a slightly foolish person who sought to escape a stuffy background...
...difficulties experienced by the dyslexia subjects, according to Dr. Dearborn, is the fact that in the English language the movements of the hand and eye are from the left to the right. This, it has been well established is the easiest and most natural movement for the right-handed person, away from the center of the body. Left-handed are left-eyed children have a preference for the opposite direction, that is, right to left...