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Word: impressible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest, bravest dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from 3,000 busy factories were on proud display. Nothing was spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything Britain produces-from jewelry, and tennis rackets strung with nylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...gets a yen for Lucrezia. "She's a lily!" he cries, in the same tone he would use to say "She's a lulu." Once married to her, he starts composing verses about roses and nightingales in the garden outside her bedchamber. When the poems fail to impress the pouting bride, Lund turns on the nearest nightingale and roars: "You silly ass!" In reply, the soundtrack lets out a squawk like a barnyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

That was the way Odom and his employer, Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., wanted him to look. They wanted to impress U.S. executives with the reliability, range, and low operating costs of personal planes. Odom's fuel bill for the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Small Wonder | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Three "no's" to these questions impress me as the most rock-headed set of answers the Committee of Education has offered to date. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my friends, History 1 has proven the most important single course in Harvard College. The origin and growth of every modern European nation not important? Falderol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...concert concluded with the Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee." Although this was the most melodic of the material played and the easiest to understand, it did not impress me much one way or the other. The writing is clever but essentially empty...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: The Music Box | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

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