Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Santa Claus the venerable Reichsprädsident never comes down the chimney in person, but like Santa Claus he has plenty of devoted henchmen to make his purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
Unknown anywhere in the world before 1922 is the disease now called granulopenia. During the past three years it killed 1,300 U. S. people, mostly housewives. Physicians, nurses and their families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them...
...marrow. A sore throat or a cut finger uses up white cells. No others come from the marrow to replace them. Eventually the body has too few white cells available to fight off the invasion of germs. Along comes a cold, and the granulopenic (poor in white cells) person dies with shocking suddenness...
...Clifford Martin, retiring after 20 years with the Department of Health's tuberculosis bureau, said that although he believed in the eventual discovery of a cure, he saw none in prospect. But, he added, "control is a comparatively simple matter if the disease is caught soon enough. . . . Any person who contracts a particularly heavy cold or who has suffered from loss of weight may have tuberculosis. Any such condition should immediately be reported to a physician who can diagnose the condition by the use of x-rays...
...when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other leading European intellectuals: ''I can honestly say that...