Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother, U. S. Circuit Court Judge John J. Parker (see cut), whose nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Hoover was rejected by the Senate six years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930), he gravely accepted from President Roosevelt the $2 Medal which made him the 1,825th person in U. S. history to receive this No. i award...
...only person who seemed at all sure of himself was chipper Senor Rivas Vi cuna of Chile. "Well, I at least have my orders," said he. "Chile will vote to lift Sanctions as soon as the motion is offered, and I have been instructed to raise the question myself if the proper opportunity arises...
Another authoritative psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Wallingford Darrah of Gardner, Mass., wondered if there is a mentally normal person in the whole world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
After giving nine years to the research, during which time he electrocuted 900 guinea pigs, twelve rabbits, ten cats, ten dogs, ten pigs. 500 sheep and ten calves, Livingston Polk Ferris. Bell Telephone Laboratories Engineer, last week in Electrical Engineering, was able to state precisely why a person may drop dead upon being shocked by a small current of electricity. Such an accident may happen when a person, still wet from a bath, touches an improperly grounded electric light in the bathroom. Mr. Ferris and associates rediscovered a method of reviving such shocked persons...
Federal law prohibits the exchange of person-to-person radio messages in the course of a public broadcast. A Pittsburgh newshawk confronted Baritone Thomas with this solid legal fact when he sang there last week, asked him what he would do if his filial salutation should be banned from the air by the Federal Communications Commission. John Charles Thomas' reply was unhesitating : "It will be either 'Good Night, Mother,' or 'Goodbye Broadcasting...