Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That sort of Siwash stuff does not go at Harvard. It might be all right in some talk-town college in the middle 'Vest we are the yokels cut up to impress co-aids, but it is an indication that have crept into Harvard youngsters ist behind the ears and sadly in bibs...
...container marked Veritable Benedictine D. 0. M., taken from the shopwindow, was found exactly to resemble the French original in bottle and labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used...
...other hand to have on the bench a coach who is a fine example to his men is by no means an evil. He can impress them more deeply by showing himself capable under pressure. Undoubtedly the game has been managed too much by the coach. Indeed, to instruct the pitcher or catcher to look toward the bench before every pitched ball is perhaps going too far. Players can be given more opportunity to exercise their initiative, but to do this it is not necessary to remove the coach from the bench...
...schools there are which annually impress their friends and bore most of their students by staging a classical drama, usually something translated from Plautus or Aristophanes. It would indeed startle the public if leading newspapers gave these events more than cursory notice. Were a newspaper to publish long passages from such a play, readers would suspect the editor had gone mad. In England the public views the classics differently...