Word: impression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that his average finishing position was fourth, that he had won more prize money ($14,138) than any of his competitors. Although an average of fourth place might not impress racing addicts, it is comparable to the records of War Admiral or Seabiscuit, since golfers go to the post against a field of 100 to 1,000 opponents...
...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...
...unable to live. The economic distress was correspondingly dreadful and the people's mortality figure rose in the most fearful manner. In Vienna alone last year out of 100,000 births there were 20,000 fatalities.† I don't say this because I believe I could impress the self-righteous citizens of the world, for I know they are completely without feeling toward such affairs...
When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...
...ready to shoulder the phrase. In France it has become almost proverbial that the way to turn a French writer into a violent anti-imperialist and radical is to let him see Africa. In general, a good case could be made out to show that African natives now impress whites more than the other way round. Among three of the latest books on Africa, two might well add something to the case...