Word: impression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raised Voices. There was no doubt that competition for the readers' small change and advertisers' dollars was getting stiffen One symptom was a rash of big ads in Manhattan dailies, not so much to sell millions of newspaper readers as to impress a thousand or so admen now making up 1949 budgets...
...theory of how this should be accomplished has been evolved from the experience of the past, and, according to many of West Point's critics, the past is still the dominant factor in the standards striven for. Certainly tradition is present everywhere, and a conscious attempt is made to impress the incoming Plebe with its importance. Not only the collection of battle flags in the Chapel or the many statues and monuments to the dead are there to remind him of "the long, grey line" of Cadets that have preceded him, but such customs as the "Plebe system" itself contribute...
Voluntary organizations may, do, and should propagate their ideas and impress the public with them. The Church does not attempt to "force" the state to carry out its will; it merely attacks the proposed amendment. It is up to the voters to tell the state what they want. And are the voters in considering, the issue, "not . . . to argue it on a religions level," as the CRIMSON says? Is religion illegitimate...
Cherrington, who is a member of the national committee of UNESCO, pointed out that it would take this long to break down present nationalistic barriers. "We haven't yet developed a sense of belonging to the world community and it will take UNESCO a long time to impress this on its member nations...
Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...