Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atop Sinai's Mount St. Catherine is a small, poorly constructed chapel which belongs to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine ten miles down the massif. The uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...
...such a case argumentation is useless; against the hard shell of sincerity it can make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...
When the militia was called out and the strikers were told to keep back. Red. in order to impress the girl, stepped forward and was shot. With this unfinal denouement the wandering tale wanders...
Privately French officials called this British statement a mass of weasel words uttered to impress U. S. public opinion but contrary to the letter of the Accord de Con fiance which Britain signed. What Europe owes, they asserted, most certainly "affects the European regime" and is therefore explicitly included in (not excluded from) the purview of the Accord de Con fiance...
...power to sway delegates to unexpected results. Alfred Emanuel Smith will enter the convention, not only, as a candidate for the Presidency but also as a delegate-at-large from New York. As such the rostrum will be his for the asking. He may take it to impress his Wet views upon the delegates during the platform debate which precedes the nomination tussle. At such a tense time a speech by the "Happy Warrior," full of fire and fight, might start a stampede away from the man who called Al Smith that...