Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Many men here are spending money daily on unnecessary little extravagances. It is the duty of the committee to impress on these men the fact that they should give up these things and save that money to buy bonds. If they have not the cash on hand they should invest on the instalment plan...
Office hours have been kept each afternoon during the past week, but very few members of the Junior class have availed themselves of the opportunity to make application for rooms next year. The Senior dormitory committee wishes to impress upon the Junior class the fact that President Lowell is exceedingly desirous that the custom of the Seniors living as a group in the Yard buildings shall not be discontinued because of the war. This custom of democratic distribution of residence in the Senior year has now become firmly established and it is felt that everything should be done to insure...
...comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well as we know how. But remember, all our support, moral and physical, comes from those who remain behind in the States. Try to impress all this on the young hopefuls in whose brains you are endeavoring to plant the seeds of English literature...
...currents, but what they do know they are now putting at the service of the men who fly. And the men who fly will, in their turn, enrich and advance meteorological science by means of the many important facts which their own practical experience in the air will impress upon their minds. The man who knows most about practical meteorology is the best equipped for service in the air. He is the most likely, other things being equal, to do his country the greatest service...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...