Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Root gave the impression that he thought it highly unlikely the U. S. would ever have to exercise its withdrawal privilege because the World Court would always heed a U. S. protest. Said he: "It was the existence of this power of withdrawal that made the agreement possible."
The trick is to look like a "white spat boy," for diplomacy is a white spat game; but to act with inflexible firmness and more than sufficient tact. Tactfully Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to...
Besides, the recitation is too commonly a rather farcial affair, and, as a recent writer puts it, Rollins College has "wanted to get away from the method under which the class room becomes a sort of criminal court, where the teacher--as judge, prosecutor, and detective--attempts to find out...
I suppose that my low opinion of the recitation system and the lecture system is a result chiefly of my experience with them both in my student days, but the impression then made was reinforced later on by my experience as a journalist, and a journalist is a student, habitually...
The Senate Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not...