Word: impression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diligence, a certain futility marked the tariff labors of the House Ways & Means Committee. A quarter of a mile across the Capitol grounds waited the man who in the end would leave the largest impress of authority upon this legislation ?Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.*The House writes tariff bills; the Senate Finance Committee chairman rewrites them...
Conversely the new emphasis upon the critical examination of particular problems will impress upon concentrators in this field, the dangers that await the dabbler. The body of knowledge which relates to the adaptation of man to his society must still, for the most part, be interpreted by the use of more experimental hypotheses. In a field which deals with countless variables, the very existence of many of which are scarcely realized, there can be no exact scientific laws. Superficial study has a tendency to discover order where there is none, and it is only by thorough investigation of restricted portions...
...Most of the great leaders and reformers who left an impress upon their own and subsequent generations were not noted for their sense of humor. Moses, Mahomet and Jesus . . . are outstanding examples. The great figures in public life today are, on the whole, very serious-minded...
...many parts of Africa. He comments upon the relative insensibility-to-pain characteristic of these blacks and believes that in general their olfactory, visual, and auditory senses are not more keenly developed than those of whites. He discusses the "mobility of character" of the primitive Negro--"an inconsistency of impressions and sentiments, which only touch the consciousness without leaving there anything else but a fleeting imprint." The emotions of the Liberian native, his sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice, and his capacity for work are dealt with in detail. Schwab says that the Negro...
...Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...