Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years before World War I, the Kaiser took Queen Wilhelmina-a plump, sweet-faced young matron-out to his Army maneuvers. Intending to impress his little neighbor with Germany's military might, he pointed out to her a strapping unit of the Prussian Guard...
...William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
...anything in the world, but could not sacrifice Germany's vital interests for it, and for His Majesty's Government to make a bargain over such a matter was an unendurable proposition. All my attempts to correct this complete misrepresentation of the case did not seem to impress...
...read in the last two years, such as Henry C. Link's The Rediscovery of Man, Robert Norwood's Increasing Christhood, etc. Never have there been so many wonderful inspirational books written as recently and religion is sensibly, "gropefully" discussed at every turn. Unfortunately we are still impressed as a nation by education meaning "an accumulation of knowledge of facts" rather than education as "a deepening of consciousness." When our braintrusters can be trusted because they have learned how to live wisely themselves instead of trying to impress us with their "Smart Alec" stuff there will indeed...
...Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...