Word: personalization
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Forging credentials and references, he applied to a medical placement agency. Since hospitals were then clamoring for interns, he was soon placed. Said Superintendent Miriam Watnick of Brooklyn Women's Hospital: "He was a very good doctor and a nice person. He had a marvelous personality and impressed all of us at the hospital. I can't imagine him being a fake . . . He had a medical diploma and references. What could we do?" Nobody, it seemed, had had the time or taken the trouble to check MacLeod's references...
...morphs" himself, people's temperaments are apt to fit their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...
...morning at the end of last month, Harry Truman sat down and tackled the accumulation of personal mail that he always handles himself. No advisers were with him. The only other person in his office was his quiet and devoted personal secretary, Miss Rose Conway. The presidential voice droned through the dictation, the Conway pencil traced its neat shorthand-until Mr. Truman's eyes fell on a letter from California's Republican Congressman Gordon L. McDonough...
...virus's appetite for nucleoproteins suggested an explanation of the oft-reported link between physical fatigue and the severity of a polio attack, said Dr. Melnick. The nucleoproteins are believed to be reduced by extreme fatigue. Therefore, if the polio virus attacks an exhausted person, the supply of nucleoproteins will be at a minimum and the virus will soon consume it, causing the death of the nerve cells. But if the infected person is well rested and has an abundant store of nucleoproteins in his nerve cells, the virus may be able to satisfy its own needs without destroying...
...Malevich's White on White-a white-painted canvas adorned with one tilted white square. They are dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded by Joan Miro's Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird-in which the "Person" is a leg with an eye in its kneecap, the "Stone" is an egg trailing a dotted line, and the "Bird" looks like an unworkable bow & arrow...