Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
...what Scott called "regimentation" and "state socialism" was what the people had voted for in 1948. The words did not impress anybody any more-if they ever did-and it behooved the Republicans to realize it as simple political fact...
...pulled on a sweater and an old pair of pants, shouldered skis and took off for the hills. That was before the U.S. clothing industry made it its $15 million-a-year business to make sure that skiers got to the wilds suitably groomed to: 1) ski and 2) impress other skiers. Last week, with snow falling in Canada's Laurentians and in the U.S. Midwest, department stores went after the skiers with fashion shows, grand openings and a fanfare of flashy publicity...
...impress them with the importance of getting a job early, the Placement Office will send out form letters today to all seniors in the College, advising them of its job-counseling services, and inviting them to drop in for a chat with John W. Teele, Director of Student Placemen...
...this analysis was last year's Crimson football coach, Bob Margarita, now at Yale. Bob played collegiate football for Brown and was considered one of the best backs in the country. Before last year's Brown game he recollected how as an undergraduate at Brown, the coaching staff would impress on the players the importance of beating Harvard. By the time the coaches got through with them at Brown, Margarita went on, the players believed that is was nigh on impossible to beat Harvard...