Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League t4ies to inform those who do not know the value and necessity for a strong navy. It tries to impress upon friends of the navy. It is not even enough that their representatives in Congress vote for sufficient appropriations for the Navy. It is necessary to have the vote of majority of representatives in congress. The League joins the friends of the navy in spreading correct information concerning the why and how of the Navy...
Advertising pays just as liberally in Wall Street as elsewhere. Gilded on its windows or carved on its lintels, appear the names of countless bankers and brokers, all just as anxious to impress the passer-by with their particular names as firms are anywhere else. Even the Stock Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce feel it necessary to label themselves quite plainly for the benefit of the man in the street...
Moscow. "Moscow is bewildering at first. Its colossal size, its great streets and avenues, its countless side-alleys and byways, its mighty churches and large apartment houses impress one as a complete microcosm, indeed a big world of its own. I was surprised at the large number of shops and business houses open. . . . As I expected, the city itself shows evidences of disrepair. I saw no new buildings under construction, but numerous old buildings are undergoing repair. Many of the ill-paved streets are in the hands of contractors, who are restoring them. The thousands of horse-drawn droshkys, which...
Many of Melba's tenors have tried to make good use of their position to gain social favors, and have made a disastrous mistake. They have tried first of all to impress the veteran soprano with their merits and importance. This impression they have sought to make in usual operatic ways. They have engaged press agents and a claque, which usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns...
...Young Girl's Diary, anonymous, is not a novel, but the diary of an anonymous German fraulein a little before and after the age of puberty. As a pathological and psychological document it is of some importance?it should certainly impress on anybody who reads it the importance of proper sex education for the young? but the average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only...