Word: impression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinarily considered of practical value to begin the study of geography in the lowest grades of grammar schools. It is further considered practicable to end this study when pupils arrive at what are called years of discretion. The purpose of such an arrangement is doubtlessly in order to impress youthful minds with the spirit of discovery and adventure. Another aspect, however, is apparent; it is found that by the mere association of ideas children can easily connect Brazil with nuts. Ceylon with tea, or even Java with coffee. By this method, they learn to the exclusion of more important facts...
...part of sports writers. To fill their depicted columns, they fabricate grotesque stories of judicious phenomena; pictures of superhuman undertakings receive the appropriate comment of. "Believe it or not." A variety of topics, which represent at best a fertile imagination and laborious study, are thus glossed sufficiently to impress the reader with their plausibility as items of news...
...Western peoples has been neigther emperor nov statesman, author or scientist, but an humble carpenter from Galilee. The story of the development of the institution founded by Christ is a vital one to students of philosophy, literature, politics and art, for all of them bear to some extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given by Professor Perry at 10 o'clock this morning on "The Rise of Christianity" has a universality of appeal that few subjects possess...
...explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval construction, foreign debts and the U. S. share in the War-is to avoid misinterpretation, not (as suspected abroad) to impress foreign governments...
...verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. It was an easy matter for the defense to impress the jury with the incompetence with which the hearing was conducted. The official stenographic record was riddled with errors and omissions. Roll calls had not been taken. Questions had been suggested in the hearing room by newsgatherers and put by the Senators. Finally, the defense represented that, though the Committee...