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Word: personalization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said the magistrate: "No person other than those in authority can be allowed to decide in what part of London a delayed-action bomb should go off." He fined Leighton-Morris ?100, gave him 28 days to pay. Mr. Leighton-Morris' defiant comment: "Even if I had a hundred thousand in the bank, I'd rather do three months than pay the fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Laws of War | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Amherst, to name a few, require neither signing nor chaperones. It was only after the 1936 tempest that Crimson undergraduates were able to remove a ruling that at least two women had to be present in a room. Not much better is the current "third person," who usually turns out to be a fifth wheel. The system of granting permissions is not only superfluous, but a sham as well, as there can never be any refusal of the request unless it is made for later than 7 o'clock. The time has come to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO THIRD PERSON | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...mean analysis leading to full, clear recognition of the unprovable ultimate assumptions which underly all questions. A misplacement of scientific method has made people forget that there are some truths which, like geometrical axioms, are presuppositions and cannot be proved by logic, such as the assumption by every person that "I exist," or the assumption of scientists that there is a fundamental unity underlying all the sciences and all the forces of Nature, or the assumption that underlying all the diversities between tribes, races and nations of men there is a more enduring and more important unity, and the still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1940 | See Source »

...person with a bad compound fracture can usually walk on the iron, with a crutch, about ten days after his accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nails, Stirrups, Plaster | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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