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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fresh from his war coverage in Leftist Spain quiet, hard-working Vincent Sheean, Left-wing author & correspondent, fortnight ago hurried to Vienna to scout reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Vain and Futile | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Concluded Sheean: "The aristocrats. Jews, liberals and intellectuals, without much direct knowledge of the working class, tend to believe that the Viennese workers are anti-Nazi, but can never produce a shred of objective evidence to that effect. ... It is my impression that the Nazi control over Viennese workers is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Vain and Futile | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

The open sore if not outright scandal that was long French Guiana made little impression on successive French governments until Léon Blum became Premier. Then the penal colony was described as a failure. The escaped convicts were said to reflect on Frenchmen everywhere. Explains the bill finally adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slow Death | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

In The Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Patroncito | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Dwarf & Advertising. The diethylene glycol angle has been pushed hard by Philip Morris in advertisements in medical journals and in general promotion among doctors. In its general advertising Philip Morris merely uses round phrases such as "Doctors have agreed that Philip Morris is less irritating to the throat." This sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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