Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind. And good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...
Last week in Tennessee, which allows a person to pay the $1 poll tax for any member of his immediate family. Knoxville pastors and prominent citizens fancied up a new attack on the tax under a cynical, seasonal slogan: "Give a Poll Tax for Christmas...
...signing in Moscow's Kremlin on the night of August 23-24 of the Nazi-Communist "NonAggression" Pact was a diplomatic demarche literally world-shattering. The actual signers were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov, but Comrade Stalin was there in person to give it his smiling benediction, and no one doubted that it was primarily his doing. By it Germany broke through British-French "encirclement," freed herself from the necessity of fighting on two fronts at the same time. Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath...
...with the series of spectacular robberies that the "revolutionists" engineered. Once a Government-convoyed truck was bombed in the Tiflis main square, and 341,000 rubles ($170,000) in cash was taken from it. Maxim Litvinoff, incidentally, was later caught in Paris with some of this money on his person. "Soso" wandered from town to town in the Caucasus, using numerous aliases. Five times he was arrested and exiled; four times he escaped...
...test, Dr. Althausen feeds his patients 40 grams of galactose, a sugar derived from milk and certain gummy plants, but not normally present in human blood. After an hour, a drop of blood is taken from an ear lobe, and tested for the presence of galactose. A normal person will have from 20 to 30 milligrams of the sugar in every hundred cubic centimetres of blood; a hyperthyroid. around 70 milligrams; a diabetic, whose thyroid is not stepped up, shows the same amount of galactose as a normal person, although, of course, his blood and urine are saturated with unused...