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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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I am sure you give the impression that every difficult problem is being dealt with with far less sense and ability than could be done by you, who can have few of the facts, none of the experience nor understanding of the immense variety of cross difficulties encountered.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

This conveys the impression that it is possible to become a teacher of physical education without much study. Such a statement would have been true 30 years ago but not in any reputable school today. The boy in question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Same day, Administrator Hopkins revealed an incident which made observers wonder just how much he does not know about what is going on in his vast WPA machine. Up to last month he had been under the impression that certain buildings being built with WPA funds in four Mississippi towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Fraud v. Fraud | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Readers who had already been subjected to the Webbs' dry objectivity rightly expected few traces of excitement in their latest work. Instead they found 1.143 pages of well-arranged, lucidly expressed information, bristling with footnotes, tables, charts. Their aim: "To present ... an objective view of the whole social order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U.S.S.R. | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...most part his work gives the impression of crudeness of execution, notably "Falls at Scheffelhausen", which might almost be called modernistic in its conception; its harsh dynamic lines suggest symbolism or impressionism. "Pass of Faido" seems dark, stark, and dreary, and is painted in dull grey and browns. "Looking down from Florence toward Lucca" is Ruskin's sole really vivid contribution; done with sweeping dabs of blue and green, it is startling and very effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

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