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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rand Reshuffle | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

In Personal History Vincent Sheean wrote the autobiography of a 30-year-old newspaperman who had seen and participated in some of the most momentous events of the post-War period: the pacification of the Riff in Africa, the Chinese Revolution of 1927, the German Inflation, the Allied occupation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheean & Sin | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

The American Guild of Musical Artists' first public gesture apparently made a favorable impression on the Immigration Committee. Probably the only trade association ever formed on a fairway, the Guild was born when Baritones Tibbett and Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Major Leaguers | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Franker than most autobiographers since Rousseau, Murry makes no bones about revealing some unflattering facts, but his candor often leaves a disingenuous impression. Born in a London suburb in 1889, of poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Introspect | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

In the centre of the hall, looming up in the dim light, is a group of eight big-eared elephants. They have no setting, give an overpowering impression of tons of monstrous life on the move. One enormous bull raises his trunk horizontally as a danger signal. The bull at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Africa Transplanted | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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