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Word: impacting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Pusey has observed, "Television is, for good or evil, going to make more impact on human minds than any earlier means of communication. The question, therefore, is whether it will be used to good advantage or whether it is going to be just another way to feed in more inferior material for the diversion of restless minds." WGBH-TV should provide at least one effective answer

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: WGBH: A Station for Special Publics Develops an Eye as Well as an Ear | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...that industrial disputes have usually been more frequent in periods of expansion than in periods of contraction." ¶ Pension plans, which now cover 12 million workers and absorb $3 billion a year, are a growing sociological and economic influence. Government studies, said the report, may learn more about their impact on worker mobility, spending habits and investment trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Half a Trillion | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...members. Grace thought it a hilarious joke. "We've got a new girl in Washington," she would cry in triumph. "I think she's ours, sewed up." In High Noon, her finishing-school accent sat awkwardly amongst the western drawls, and her beauty made little impact. What was more, from High Noon determined Grace Kelly got her first real self-doubts about her planned progress. Says she: "With Gary Cooper, everything is so clear. You look into his face, and see everything he is thinking. I looked into my own face, and saw nothing. I knew what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...people would believe they are real rocks." Painters also found their ingenuity taxed by the great spaces and the harsh light of the West. Lacking an adequate technique for handling light, they often fell back on filling their canvases with lurid sunsets, fire, even rainbows, to give the impact of the West's grandeur. How effective this stratagem can be is shown by Charles Wimar, an immigrant German boy whose murals in the St. Louis Courthouse were the first west of the Mississippi. By painting straight into a sunset, he gave his painting a superb sense of the loneliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE WAY WEST | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...that is needed would be a few tons of reinforced concrete constructed in the form of flying buttresses on three walls to support the terrific impact of the pelota, and a neon sign erected over the middle portal to advertise the pari-mutuel windows...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

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