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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Just how does Mr. James E. Van Zandt get the idea that college boys are "too yellow to go to war" (TIME, March 30)? My impression: the courage of our college youth is equal to that of any group in the U. S. Mr. Van Zandt surely knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

This is, of course, an exaggeration. But is the delusion that naturally arises from the primitive power of this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

In your March 23 issue, there appeared an article headed ''Program for Picker" which will undoubtedly create the impression among your readers that the cotton-producing South faces a chaotic labor problem due to the inventive genius of the Rust Brothers of Memphis, Term., who have invented a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Sir William was Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Doxy | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Your reference about my conviction is apt to give an incorrect impression. It is a fact that I was for several years engaged as a geologist to find potential oil fields in Wyoming. The acreage thus acquired was placed into a developing company, which is today a highly successful corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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