Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THREE SMITH SENIORS, MALESSLY MAILESS, NEED TO IMPRESS FRESHMEN, S.O.S...
Tending more & more to accept the Germans, the Americans did not really impress the Germans. The plain truth was that Americans in Germany, as a group and as the representatives of a great power, were serving neither themselves nor America well...
...True Glory" according to a Warner Brothers executive, should be distributed to schools all over America to impress the horrors of war upon the minds of the younger generation. The suggestion is of disputable merit, for while "The True Glory" is the definitive, comprehensive record of the invasion of Europe from D-Day to V-E Day--and should be seen by everyone as such--there is evidence that less ambitious films, documentaries on either of two other levels, are more effective as instruments toward attaining the goal sought by the Warner...
Professor Renshaw has proved that the human eye, properly trained, can observe instantly a complicated object (such as a tank or an airplane) and impress it as a whole upon the mind. At his Navy Recognition School at Columbus, Ohio, he taught 4,000 officers from all branches of the armed services how to do this trick. As graduate instructors, they trained servicemen to tell friend from foe before the foe got too close...
...protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...