Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twinges of conscience." He deserved more twinges for quoting, to their present shame, the past happy squeals of critics. Sample, from Poet-Critic Paul Engle (American Song): "There is so warm a feeling of validity about these verses, and so accurate a sense of individual character that their impact is far stronger than a simple amusement at childish simplicity...
...year-old Conant-Harvard partnership have been considerable. One widely known example is last year's report on General Education in a Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). That $60,000, 267-page report, which did not even discuss Harvard until page 177, had an immediate impact on American education. It was President Conant who set the sights for that far-ranging study...
...Weill and nice acting by Paul Muni as an uprooted old Jew who dies on the road to Palestine. But the evening is only fitfully effective. Hitting from all sides, working in all moods-now pathetic, now heroic, now angry, now scornful-A Flag Is Born lacks singleness of impact...
Center of Impact. Last week the focus of fighting was along the east-west Lunghai Railroad. There Communists had surged south to capture Kaifeng, and 90 miles of track. Nationalist armies counterattacked, and pushed the Communists off the railroad east of Kaifeng...
...impact of the order was felt around the world as the flashy, popular "Connies," which hauled some 2,500 passengers a week in overseas flights, some 4,000 in domestic routes, were pulled off the airways...