Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very few citizens have gained the ability to appraise facts and opinions. The majority, though grown to adulthood in years, all too often accept as absolute truth exactly what the person on the platform says or the book dictates...
...rearmament of Germany in violation of Versailles had created a new situation, secured from Britain and France a release from Belgium's obligation to aid them, while they agreed to remain bound to aid Belgium in case she is attacked. This coup by King Leopold in person, his Minister in Berlin followed up by quietly obtaining from Hitler a pledge that Germany, too, will defend Belgium in case of unprovoked aggression ("TIME...
...living have been more beloved by their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized...
Most communicable of all contagious diseases is measles. It spreads much faster than its nearest morbid rivals, smallpox and influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...
...River Brethren have two branches, the One-Mode holding that, in their foot-washing ritual, the same person should wash and dry the feet, while the Two-Mode believes that one should wash, another...