Word: impressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alter your mode of living so as to impress the date lastingly upon your mind...
...SHOW-OFF?A pungent comedy of human striving to impress, that is almost pathetic in its revelation of the insect-like futility of mankind...
...university worthy the name is not special training, but the diffusion of a broad, liberal education, and the fostering of an idealistic humanism. Not until everything possible has been done to further the accomplishment of this vital aim the sine qua non of all civilizations which have left their impress on the pages of history can the claims of externals or appendages be considered...
...average undergraduate to withstand information is one of his most engaging, if also his most exasperating, characteristics. But it is not quite enough to score him off on that account as a "bonehead". It is partly at least the failure of a traditional form of education to impress him with its value. It seems almost a fault in the colleges that they are so organized as to impress upon the freshman that scholastic achievement doesn't get him anywhere, and it is almost a virtue in the freshman that he so successfully acts on that verdict...
Russia: "I do not confound the Russian people nor the Russian Government with the Moscow International, whose political literature is stupid and puerile, and does not impress me. In trying to reestablish relations with the Soviet Republic, I shall not let myself be maneuvered by agitation and I shall not forget that small French investors have great interests in Russia...