Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives me great pleasure to tell you that your application to Quincy House has been enthusiatically accepted. The success of this enterprise next year--and no doubt the next ten years--will depend upon the creative impact of this group of gifted upperclassmen who have ventured in the dark to throw light on a possibility. I welcome you as a member of a distinguished company .... Sincerely yours, John M. Bullitt Master Quincy House...
...clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...
...into the skies. Its tape recording of President Eisenhower's greetings heralded the beginning of worldwide communications through outer space. Earlier U.S. satellites were fired in stages, dropped sections after burnout, and finally flung small instrumented payloads into orbit around the earth. But somehow there was greater impact in the fact that the body of the Atlas went up in one piece, was circling the globe as the U.S.'s biggest satellite, its weight easily comparable to the heaviest the Russians have put up so far (see SCIENCE). Moreover, the Atlas needed no extra rocket stages to help...
...full tide of critical scrutiny. Dutifully, reviewers hunched down in aisle seats and saw their appraisals through the typewriter. Theater pressagents soon had mimeographed copies of neatly excerpted reviews ready, but only the playgoer passionate enough to watch for critical summaries on radio and TV got the impact of first-nighters' verdicts. The score...
This seems to be the case. A great many applicants seem most intrigued at the potential the House offers. "I like the idea of being there first, setting the tradition." "I want to leave something of myself behind, I want to make an impact on the system." "It's a challenge." "I want to do something that will last." "I liked my House, but you had to fit into the pattern. Everything was too organized. I like the notion of making a pattern of your...