Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodore E. Apstein, legal adviser to The National Divorce Reform League: "The marriage . . . is valid on its face. . . . Andy has two ways out: 1) providing the bride has entered into a previous marriage which is in existence; 2) providing the marriage was performed by an unauthorized person...
...artist has intended it. In other words, an object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather...
...Every person who applies for work at the Student Employment Office indicates on the application form the subjects in which he can tutor. The Office has the machinery for bringing students and tutors together, although this machinery is at present very rarely used. If those undergraduates who needed polishing up in any subject would go to University L, they could quickly be given the names of several students who are ready and anxious to help them learn the material they need...
These two things, in my opinion, would help greatly to alleviate the situation. First is the realization on the part of the person needing tutoring that he will get more from the personal attention of a man who is really interested in having him learn the subject. Second is the adoption of a system of approving the tutors by the Employment Office. Robert Fleischer...
...Couch, regional director of the Federal Writers' Project, sent his best writers out to get the life stories of a typical cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything I have ever read...