Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph John, obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...
...spent his younger days in Luxembourg and in a British prison camp during the War. Afterward he knocked around as a seaman, became a hospital orderly in Manhattan, then a barber. His moody paintings of recollected landscapes, done in the back room of his shop at night, began to impress art critics three years ago, have grown more impressive. Sympathetic customers at the Mommer beauty parlor include Mrs. Norman Thomas and Mrs. Max Eastman, who also paints (TIME Sept...
...French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...summer, said "Kosty'' last week, he discovered that "other leaders, men I respected, too, were playing popular music in such a complicated style it was hard to follow the melody at all. . . . We had reached a point where a lot of leaders were arranging their programs to impress other leaders. I decided I would not do that any more." In turning to reconsider symphonic music, it occurred to Kostelanetz that "sixty percent of a symphonic overture is development of the themes. That is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people. I think it should...
...restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less naïve. As a device for jarring the reader out of that slightly dreamy state induced by travel books, the theory, coming where it does in The House in Antigua, is indisputably effective...