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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some confusion is bound to arise from your use of the word "junk," which covers a large number of waste materials, in conjunction with scrap iron. The impression is made that there is a great deal of wealth to be made in the waste industry. The only element of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

"After a lapse of 28 years," wrote Viscount Kaneko, "I do not pretend to repeat the exact word of the President, but their substance made an ineffaceable impression which can never be forgotten as long as I live:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Fissiparous Tendencies | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Without going into the irrelevancy of detail, Shaughnessy-Sullivan gives the impression of having said what there was to say about his microcosmos, drops many a memorable remark by the way. Novel-addicts will cheer his dictum: "Novels, in particular, enlarge one's life. More than any other branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scientific Autobiography | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Evangeline was young, beautiful, full of curiosity about Life. She had just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Very Grand Tour | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

After five racking days of examination at the firm hands of Governor Roosevelt, a very perturbed and anxious James John ("Jimmy") Walker last week fled to the courts in an attempt to hold his job as Mayor of New York. Governor Roosevelt had not yet actually removed him but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Susanna At Albany (Cont'd) | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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