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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this episode, I learned that it is customary, in this course, to measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

In other large elementary courses the standards of formulation and correction of questions should be adjusted to a general level. In some English courses the mark is determined by the end impression, not by the perfection of all the answers, so it is to the student's advantage that his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE THE BATTLE | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

Improvements in the arrangements for the Baccalaureate Sermon must be most urgently desired by the senior's supporters who last year crowded about the entrance to Memorial Church long before 1937 filed through the doors. Under the impression that they would not all find seats these people pushed and pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPACE FOR SPECTATORS | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

The Dutch and English who settled the bottom tip of Manhattan Island were in no hurry. Their tiny lanes rambled and twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lincoln Tunnel | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetect | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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