Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...
TIME seems to impress college students. There must be a reason...
...California Republicans in their primary last week worked hard to get out a big vote for their State's first President, show confidence in Herbert Hoover and impress the nation. Unopposed, the President got some 650,000 votes, 83,000 more than...
Nothing can impress the horrors of the last war on the next generation like a book of that kind. These kids didn't live through the horror, and only know the glory rightly due the heroes, who suffered and are suffering still...
...scheme should be based on the preservation of Gold Star Mothers' memories seems, however, a trifle lame as an alibi. Granted that the patriotic side of wars should be preserved, it is still unnecessary, foolish, harmful to prevent the public assimilation of truth. May the book, however grisly, impress citizens who pay millions in taxes for wholesale slaughters past and present, with the necessity for peace and the frightfulness of the combats that their taxes support...