Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler, who combines in his single person the roles of Chancellor (Premier) and Reichsführer or Realmleader (a modernized euphemism for King), was met on the station platform in Rome last week by Il Re Vittorio Emanuele and II Duce Benito Mussolini. Der Fuhrer gave the Nazi salute, II Re the military salute and II Duce the Fascist salute (see p. 23). Afterward the German shook hands with his Italian hosts, and then Premier Mussolini effaced himself, slipping out and driving off in a small car to his office...
Welles's catholic tastes include Broadway, swing music, the cinema, but he has no hobbies. "I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it." How much money Welles is making he will not say. He is not even sure he knows. His habit at the Mercury is to draw "what he needs" from the box onice usually, the box office reports, some $200 a week. Houseman does the same. Says Welles: "Houseman and I aren't making enough money to cheat each other...
...Wyndham Lewis suddenly became celebrated. It was refused a place in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of British Art. And in protest against this act the Academy's most distinguished member, bearded, boggling Artist Augustus John, promptly and gratefully resigned. Said he: "A picture by a person of Lewis' eminence should have been unquestionably exhibited. ... I shall be far more at home outside...
...century scientists have been polarizing light with small natural crystals. Lately a synthetic polarizing material called Polaroid has been developed which can be fabricated into large sheets. In American Optical Co.'s gadget, light from an illuminated test chart first passes through a disk of Polaroid. The person being tested looks through a pair of polarizing lenses, one vertical, one horizontal. By rotating the first disk, the examiner can cut out the vision of either eye at will, so that the subject does not know with which eye he is seeing. It is thus impossible...
...trying to forecast law school results on the basis of college records tabulated for over ten years seems to be that "a poor performance in college is an indication of a lessened chance of success in law school." Yet one cannot interpret the data to mean that a person who gets A's in college will necessarily do well in law school. The figures can only be used as an indication of lessened chances of success rather than as guarantees...