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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a variety of work offered. These settlement houses need teachers in naturalization courses. They need boys club directors. They need swimming and basketball instructors. They need discussion group leaders for older boys. They need entertainers, handicraft teachers, and game supervisors. The work to be done is important and...

Author: By Raymond Dennett, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION. | Title: Dennett Tells Plan of Phillips Brooks House Association to Expand Work | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

During that session Harlow created quite an impression by the hustling, hard-working type of practice he demanded. His motto seemed to be "Hurry up", and there was never any doubt as to his attitude towards loafing. A continuance of this policy this fall will make Varsity football practice no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW FOOTBALL FORMALLY BEGINS PRACTICE ON 16TH | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

Alice Adams (RKO). The tests of time and translation into cinema have had an unpredictable effect upon the Booth Tarkington novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Then it was a sad little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

In Stefan Zweig's analysis, Mary's greatness lay in her passionate surrender of her throne when love overwhelmed her. But his accounts of conditions in Scotland give the impression that she surrendered for love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen & Straws | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

The Farmer Takes a Wife (Fox). If cinema producers ever learn to use color without giving the impression that they consider it a Holly wood invention this is the sort of picture which it will most notably enhance. However, even in black & white, The Farmer Takes a Wife is easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Season | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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