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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY-Edited by W. A. Craigie & C. T. Onions-Oxford "($40). Five years ago occurred one of those great literary events which few editors consider newsworthy: The Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857. was finished. Last month this No. i Dictionary of the English-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-War into Pre-War | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

"Ah King" deserves all the praise given it. At the same time, clearly, the stories are only stories. They are related like tales over mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: East of Suez | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

For the benefit of those who might object that his book is not a novel at all, Author Coates defines his aim: ". . . Perhaps one might better describe it as a Jong essay discussing a novel that I might possibly write, with fragments of the narrative inserted here & there, by way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Newspaper accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

"There appears to be a fairly general view that we should gain by abrogating the Anglo-Japanese treaty. ... I prefer to exhaust all other means before denouncing the treaty. We must not get the impression that Japan has beaten us. ... We are trying to impress the Japanese mind that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western World v. Japan | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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