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Word: impressively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which have no meaning to the patient but which he has learned will impress others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Semi-Suicides | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Lydia Loses | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Once you start listening to Waller's records, you can't get enough, so I'd like to suggest several which impress me as being representative of Fats at his best. Sweet and Slow (1934 vintage), Big Chief De Sota and It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (You can imagine what Fats does to the latter), My Mommie Sent Me to the Store, and finally Send Me Jackson. (The last two have exceptional Cedric choruses...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 2/8/1941 | See Source »

...over to my room-mate, Bill Hodson, who, unlike myself, is actually a musician, and knows what he's talking about. Besides, Bill is one of those rare birds who has a thorough appreciation of both Jazz and the classics, and his ideas on the relationship of the two impress me as being definitely worth the space of a column, since the subject is one which seldom gets proper treatment-Charles Miller...

Author: By William E.STEDMAN Jr., | Title: Swing | 1/24/1941 | See Source »

...years ago for the same trouble we are now afflicted with, was that another major operation was absolutely necessary. . . . Naturally, an operation of this nature . . . will require several hundred dollars, which we do not happen to have at this time, and the primary purpose of this article is to impress upon our loyal subscribers the urgent necessity of sending in something on their subscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Urgent Necessity | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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