Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stubbornly withstood two referendums initiated by Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts a day per person) and liquor manufacture by local option, after a referendum petitioned by 35% of the voters. Only remaining dry States: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee...
...report to the Student Council last night, appeared what accountants describe as a "recurring item." This is the $22.25 figure charged to bad checks, improperly made out and miscellaneous bank charges. The largest part of this item consists of bad checks, stamped either "Not sufficient funds" or "No such person known...
Conversely, there is no apparent reason for a crime. It was not robbery for money was found on his person and a watch was left untouched in the overcoat. Several factors are left to work on, however. There were reports current at the time that a flight had been seen on the bridge shortly before the coat was discovered; investigation is still in progress to clear up this point...
...liberal is a determined, intelligent man, and is wholly admirable as a person, but there is no attempt made to hide the inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
...girl is an irresolute person fatally destined to be her own destroyer. Movie stardom offered by the playboy is no more to her liking than being the first lady of New Mexico. The finance of the liberal, she allows herself, to put it mildly, to be seduced by the communist. Since, however, the latter has made no promises either to her or to the liberal, who was once his best friend and patron, neither can censure him for treachery when he walks off to keep himself unattached. Her end, and that of the liberal, are thus close of tragic...