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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accused person must be assumed innocent until proved guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: An Army of Principles | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...China. The U.S. has successfully fended off the coexistence gambit in many a deceptive form-including siren calls to one more summit conference. But last week it hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Through the Back Door | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Back at the beginning of the century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Marshals | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

When Germany attacked Russia in 1941, nimble Joanovici became a Rumanian again by the simple process of buying back his papers from a Vichy French passport official. Later he declared himself a stateless person. Soon the Nazis were knocking at his door, not to arrest him, but to beg humbly for his help. Germany was short of scrap, and Joanovici could supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Notes on Survival | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity? "It is the ability to see a job through, to give more than is asked for or required in any given situation . . . dependability . . . independence of thought and action . . . the capacity to cooperate. The mature person is pliable and can alter his own desires according to time, persons and circumstances. He is tolerant, he is patient, he is adaptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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