Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning from this hysterical and somewhat cryptic analysis to the photographs in the volume, readers may get an impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension...
Surgeons in plays and cinemas who whisper "Brain tumor!" behind the doomed victim's back give laymen the impression that these disorders are rare. But Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, famed Yale brain surgeon, declares that no part of the body, with the possible exception of the uterus, is as...
He was aware, like other experimenters, that cerebral tumors frequently nudge the olfactory centres of the brain, blunt the sense of smell. But sharpness of smell is so inconstant and the weak human nose can detect such minute quantities of a substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg...
In the works as a whole, Gosz has little interest in merely being realistic, but attempts by little details here and there to bring out forcibly a definite impression and mood from his sketch. He continually makes use of great splashed of bright color especially blue, red, and orange, and...
Among the paintings, an "Impression of New York Harbour" is very interesting. In this he catches all the bustle of the busy port with its many types of boats, the dinginess of the smoky atmosphere through which the sun burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the...