Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the Reverend Doctor Streeter congratulating himself on having discovered the sex solution par excellence in the joy of renunciation for its own sake as an admirable example to others. Somehow the logic of renouncing something that is not worth renouncing for one's self so as to impress others with doing the same for the same reason has never pleased this reviewer...
...statement to the CRIMSON yesterday, Harper said, "That all nominations for officers of the Freshman Class be dictated by one person would be wholly undesirable. For that reason I wish to impress upon the members of the Class of 1932 that this list of nominees is merely to start the ball rolling. It is hoped that by next Monday, a good many additional nominations by petition will be received. The names that appear below are those which have caught my attention, merely because they have received more publicity, but in point of popularity and desirability as leaders, many others...
...Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...
...placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...
Published almost instantly in the papers of two continents, these and other messages from Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...