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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face in your picture looked strangely familiar to me. I compared it with the photo my brother sent me of his wife Evdokia and himself (prior to his disappearance), and I was almost sure that my brother's wife Evdokia and Mrs. Petrov were the same person. After that, I got a copy of their book and, true enough, Evdokia in her autobiography describes in detail her life with my brother, and the tragic fate that befell him after his arrest and imprisonment by the State Security Police in Moscow in 1937. Thus, after 20 years, if it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Just what is obscenity? The old test, said Brennan, allowed "material to be judged merely by the effect of an isolated excerpt upon particularly susceptible persons." That standard was rejected, and the Supreme Court instead approved this test: "Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests." Justice Brennan quoted with approval a lower court's charge to the jury: "You and you alone are the exclusive judges of what the common conscience of the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: On Sex & Obscenity | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Last week, as the number of dowries reached 11,500, the King and Queen themselves were busily handing them out in person at the end of a two-month tour covering 50 towns and villages. "The royal couple," said one grateful Greek, "have changed the birth of a girl from a curse to a hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Dowries for the Destitute | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Last week the client-centered method won notable new ground. The University of Wisconsin named Alumnus Rogers to be professor in psychology and psychiatry, giving him greatly expanded opportunities to spread his gospel of person-to-person therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Person to Person | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...original theme is that of the alternation of the conflict and the agreement of two Renaissance principles in the person of England's monarch--that the sovereign must observe justice and that friendship is superior to sexual love...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Group 20 Opens | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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