Word: impressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature are very different Added to the poverty of people and government and the natural difficulty of mastering the thousands of characters required to convey Chinese thought on paper this handicap might prove insurmountable. In spite of these grave difficulties Chinese educators have launched an advertising campaign to impress the people with the desirability of national literacy which has already begun to prove its effectiveness...
...hope, sir, that the result of this exhibition will be to impress vividly upon all the peoples of your empire the advice you have given to them on more than one occasion?that they should be fully awake to their responsibilities as heirs of so glorious an heritage and that they should be in nowise slothful stewards, but that they should work unitedly and energetically to develop resources of the empire for the benefit of the British race, for the benefit of those other races which have accepted our guardianship over their destinies and for the benefit of mankind generally...
Owen Johnson is thoroughly of New York City. He likes it. He likes its people even though he may recognize their charming weaknesses. He enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...
...certain evil persons,--no friends of the present Administration,--who derive a soul-satisfying pleasure from reading carefully every shameful account of corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome...
...scheme of national advertising, to be accomplished by the patriot ship--"Italia," which is to cruise the seas of South America, carrying specimens of Italian manufacture, art, and literature to all the foremost republics of the southern continent. It is a propaganda ship--a veritable floating "Italian Exposition"--to impress the Latin inhabitants of South America, and to stimulate commerce and intercourse between the "Latinity" of the old and the new worlds. Professedly. It aims to counteract the influence of the United States in the South...