Word: impression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about...
...have created the outer atmospheres and inner climates through which her characters are supposed to have lived, The Nazarovs would be a novel of great tragic force. But the job calls for more than the style of a competent linguist and the memory of a good reporter. What will impress the reader is not so much the novel that is there as the suggestion of the novel that might have been...
...humorously written letter Mr. Leonard stated that it had been his endeavor to impress proctors at examinations to be unobtrusive...
...allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...
...left-handed rows that turn possible system into chaos. Exceptions are fine: but when they grow too numerous, they take over the rule. Attendance comes and it goes (a month after the beginning of the term), but it fails to impress when it assigns special rows to the left-handed...