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Word: impressively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tours in the Philippines, rose with the expanding Armored Force from chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Corps, and finally, as The Armored Force Chaplain, left an indelible impress upon the spiritual life of the Army's toughest branch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARMY CHAPLAIN SCHOOL | 2/26/1943 | See Source »

Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Selig Shaftel's Song | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...possible to it. Current plans: 225,000 copies in English, 50,000 in Afrikaans, 75,000 French, 75,000 Portuguese, 40,000 Spanish, 75,000 Arabic; total, 540,000. Victory will sell for the foreign equivalent of 25?, will be doled out free to people the U.S. wants to impress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taxpayers' Vicfory | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...clouded by an odd feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

When the U.S. had an area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Ideas | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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