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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In fairness to Northwestern's co-operative spirit in making the games available to alumni and other fans through radio facilities, TIME should correct the impression that Northwestern University has "succumbed to Kellogg's Corn Flakes."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

In Chicago he had used the words "quarantine" and "concerted effort," which gave isolationists and passive-peace advocates a jolt. They were a jolt also to many a bespatted dignitary of the State Department. For although the State Department is split over the proper course to be pursued, none of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Peace Postscript | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

When the latest shipment of newsreels from the Chinese-Japanese war reached Manhattan last week, the city's Japanese Chamber of Commerce heard a rumor which caused it great discomfiture. The Chamber was under the impression that a shot of captured Japanese aviators exercising in their shirttails might bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This is Arthur's! | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

In the history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stone Stuff | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Into the Japanese Navy office in Tokyo trotted a little woman. She laid several pieces of money on the counter as a contribution to Japan's war funds. Said she: "These are Admiral Yonai's teeth." Shocked underlings investigated, found she was the wife of a dentist, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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