Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward democracy. In recent Communist thought Lincoln, Jefferson, and Tom Paine have assumed a stature comparable to that of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. However much this may surprise the bourgeoisie, Communists planned it that way. This week they also planned their convention and its publicized dramatics to impress upon all U. S. minds a man, a policy, a party, a program...
...land, Eliot softballers covered themselves with glory as they downed Kirkland 11 to 7 to capture the circuit title with an unblemished record. Steve Madey pitched for the winners, but failed to impress the Deacon batters; Eliot was tied with Kirkland at 7 all going into the last frame, after trailing throughout the game. With bases loaded and no outs, George Reed took the honors of the day by banging out a homer. The four run margin was more than enough for the Elephants...
...realized he had been through savage country until he came out and heard the same scare stories all over again. Venezuela officials were touchy hysterics, but no worse than nuisances; the Indians were merely poor. He grew a beard, however, since without one, said other explorers, his trip would impress no one and he would never get his picture in the rotogravure sections at home...
Despite a 9-4 victory over Tufts yesterday, the Varsity lacrosse team failed to impress in its first home game. Sloppy work both on the defense and the offense prevented the stickmen from rolling up an impressive score...
...Bolshevik seizure of power. Like the earlier volumes, The Specter is crowded with philosophic and political speculations, with scenes of suicides and bitter intellectual quarrels, with an oppressive boredom, which is the one sensation Clim Samghim feels strongly. Although The Specter is not likely to impress U. S. readers as a novel, the massive work of which it is part may well stand as a record of Russian intellectual life, for if Clim Samghim lacks reality as a human being, he responds like a barometer to changing pressures in stormy Russian politics...