Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Union lost-and-found department, located in the downstairs check-room, keeps track of the hats and coats misplaced by Freshmen. These timid souls, who advertise on the bulletin-board. "Will the person who took BY MISTAKE a gray felt hat" usually find the lost article in the downstairs check-room, which returned over five hundred hats last year...
...times of high taxation and little stray money, additional and needless expenditures are intolerable to the people. But Governor Moor's action is not merely of local consequence. He is following and affirming a precedent set some years ago by Governor Murray of Oklahoma which menace every person in the country. The State Militia exists to protect the interests of the majority of citizens when every other method of protection has failed. In the case of the Parkor Dam project, the interests of the citizens of Arizona have already been amply insured by legal contracts. They need no further...
...will use these means only as a way to gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted form of government that makes such tactics a necessary asset to the aspiring leader. And how morally strong, moreover, must the person be who never allows the means to taint his ends and how closely associated the two usually become. In this past election, of course, it must be remembered there were other factors which influenced the results but in the respects pointed out above it was similar to those expressions...
...Sidney Freeman Jr., sole U. S. representative of "Duggie." A syndicate and not a person, "Duggie" is London's Douglas Stuart Ltd. ("Duggie Never Owes"), world's biggest firm of racetrack bookmakers. For years this British syndicate has been sending Sidney Freeman Sr., one of the directors, to the U. S. to buy up Sweepstakes tickets from persons who prefer a small sure thing to a large chance. Last summer Sidney Freeman Jr. went along, watched his father trade $100,000 cash for Epsom Derby lottery tickets which won some $225,000 (TIME, June 18). After that lesson Sidney...
True frankness is always surprising, and Author Wells surprises the reader more than once. Says he: "You will discover a great deal of evasion and refusal in my story. . . . There is a sort of journalistic legend that I am a person of boundless enthusiasm and energy. Nothing could be further from the reality. For all my desire to be interested I have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real...