Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After guiding the U. S. Embassy in Berlin forcefully through a period too hot for an Ambassador,* urbane Charge d'Affaires George Gordon summed up his impression of the German people and their leaders: "Ever since they lost the War on the field of battle they have been trying...
Only one incident of interest has been recorded concerning the comparatively peaceful war career of the "Harvard," and even that does not add much glory to the proud name. On one of its reconnoitering cruises, its commander, Captain Cotton, sighted a large man-of-war off the coast of Santiago...
In the Feb. 11 issue of TIME, p. 11, under "Balls," I find the following statement: "Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week." The statement, picturesque as it is creates a wrong impression. Reasons:
Today Michigan's Copper Country, on Lake Superior, looks desolate to visitors, gives the impression of having outworn its history. Beneath the birch, poplar and jackpine trees are innumerable outcroppings of lava, last traces of the volcano which brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's...
On the three pedagogs Chancellor Bowman made an impression which stayed with them through weeks of investigating, months of writing their report. To the final draft of that report the three men last week signed their names: Professor Ralph E. Himstead of Syracuse; Professor James B. Bullitt of North Carolina...