Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Item for your Travel Department: I find that the surest way to meet the Best People on any ship or cruise is to walk around the deck the first day out with a copy of TIME conspicuously displayed about one's person. Before nightfall the above-mentioned B. P. will either be at one's feet in an effort to borrow that copy, or will be at one's throat in an effort to settle an argument born of some article in TIME...
...many a smoker, however, this facetious advice may be unnecessary, since many a doctor has come to the conclusion that, no matter what else it may do to you, smoking does not injure the heart of a healthy person. According to the New York State Journal of Medicine, laboratory rats injected with nicotine showed fewer heart lesions over a period of six months than did rats injected with plain saltwater...
...beat up the "liberators," with bloody emphasis on one of them, a trustee of the church named Florian Vecellia, who took his bruises home to bed. Pickets bundled their not-unwilling Father Simon back into the rectory. Their lines reformed, they telegraphed Bishop Plagens: YOU ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBLE PERSON FOR BLOODSHED. . . MAY GOD FORGIVE...
...issues, then formed groups of four students each, with differing opinions, to discuss these questions. After the discussions he again tested them to find out how much each individual's opinion had changed, and whose opinion had prevailed. By examining these results, and then assaying the mental and personality traits of his subjects, he was able to tell what kind of person is influential in an argument...
Asked what kind of person Adolf Hitler was in the War, Albert Patrich, a Little Falls, Minn, farmer who was his Wartime sergeant, replied: "He was just a corporal, what could he say or do? Eight men were under him, that's all. ... I had 40 men under me. I had to give orders to him but he never talked much...