Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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He gave an account of one of Poushkin's most characteristic creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness...
Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory obtained on Wednesday afternoon a distinct impression upon a photographic plate by means of the Professor Rontgen cathode rays acting through wood and pasteboard. The impression has been fixed and is capable of giving a print upon ordinary blue print or other...
The current thus furnished to the coil being an alternating one, the appearance of the tube during action was somewhat different from that ordinarily described. The fluorescent effects were less sharply localized than usual. From the ease with which the photographic effect was obtained, it appears doubtful whether so complicated...
Class (a) of the legal tender notes, the "greenbacks," are the result of the financial legislation of the Civil War. For the last sixteen years their volume has been fixed, because, on being presented for redemption, they are reissued. Identical in legal qualities are the Treasury Notes, issued in pursuance...
"To show you how much impression our debates make throughout the country, only a short time since, I heard from a man in a North Carolina college, asking for help in the question of the debate in which I took part. Only a few days previous to this application, I...