Word: impression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanton, mother of seven and one of the few first-rate intellects in the suffrage movement, was so often confronted with Biblical "truths" putting down women that she made it her business to set the Holy Book to rights, publishing a Woman's Bible. The Scriptures bear the "impress of fallible men," she assured her readers. She particularly objected to the authors' use of the expression "The Lord saith" whenever they wanted to make a point. The story of Eve, she was happy to announce, was a fable, and woman was in no way responsible for the problems...
...Blackman's got a secret. One of his tricks today will be a Houseparty Weekend. He said earlier this week, "This will be Houseparty Weekend at Dartmouth, so it won't take any extra urging for our players want to play their best possible football." Got to impress all the parents and little sisters. Cornell doesn't impress me an awful lot, and though the Big Green may be thinking about Princeton. I'd have to go with the Indians...
Many MBA candidates understand that they can support freedom of expression by opposing Hokanson. They will speak to those S.A. members they know and ask them to pass the resolution against Hokanson which is on Wednesday's agenda. In particular, some students will try to impress upon first-year S.A. members who want a second term of office that their vote on this issue will be well remembered at recollection time...
...difficult. This meant that such outfits as the Behavioral Science Program of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) were increasingly hard put to justify their continued existence. What the Behavioral Science Program needed was a new largescale project that would produce usable and interesting results to impress authorities higher up in the Pentagon, and that wouldn't blow up in everyone's face as Camelot had. And so the Cambridge Project began to be born...
...were working closely with the behavioral sciences branch of ARPA in drawing up a proposal that the ARPA people would be able to sell on behalf of both M.I.T. and themselves. They had a tough job ahead of them: the project that they were working out would have to impress people in the Defense Department who didn't expect to be impressed by anything that the behavioral scientists and their ARPA friends could come up with. Specifically that meant John Foster, the Defense Department's top research official. Foster's scientific work has been concerned with thermonuclear bombs...