Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
...Russo-Japanese nonaggression and neutrality pact was a diplomatic trump for the Kremlin-a way "to impress the Germans," says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that...
Usually, the older students at Harvard have been able to impress on the newer ones exactly what the annual November clash means to the College and its alumni, and, usually, they have succeeded. This year, however, there appears to be a feeling which is quite understandable owing to the accelerated program and the imminenc of the Army, that who wins the Harvard-Yale game counts for very little. Moreover, the older students have been able to do relatively little to change this attitude...
...team was in control almost the whole game. Kirkland was handicapped by lack of substitutes and they were pretty well battered up at the end of the game. Only ten Deacons showed up for the game, and they were forced to impress an Adams man to make the required eleven...
...offense, Hedblom shifted to fullback. Of first-string caliber, he had the bad luck for the next two years of being substitute for the great Vernon Struck, the 'magnificent faker' and probably the best-known exponent of the deceptive Harlow offense. Nevertheless, although overshadowed by Struck, he managed to impress the coaches with his determined and spirited play, and remained second-string fullback for his Junior and Senior years...