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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To do as much good as possible to his fellow men and to accept no return therefor is the magnificent obsession of Dr. Manley Hudson. On rich, young handsome, and worthless Robert Merrick this philosophy of life makes little impression; but when he unwittingly becomes responsible for the death of...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

The play itself has been little altered. The familiar rabble-rousing harangue of Mark Antony is still the potent climax. The terror of the situation and the violence of the passions released by the demagogue are starkly symbolized by the casting of a gigantic shadow of the orator high up...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

At the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers last month, its chairman, Colby M. Chester asked rhetorical questions: "Will the Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices at the White House | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Wallace. To refute the popular impression that farmers were better off than industry in 1937, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace offered a set of statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

After turning the last page of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee," the reader does not find himself equipped with a mass of data ready to be incorporated in a lecture on Sir John Squire. He finds, rather, an impression of the man, and with this an intimacy with contemporary English...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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