Search Details

Word: forcefullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Council of Copenhagen | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Professor Salvemini speaks English fluently and is considered a forceful and authoritative lecturer on modern Italian diplomacy. Since his visit to this country is of such a short duration, it was with great difficulty that Professor Langer who has charge of History 3, prevailed upon the prominent historian to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEMESIS OF FASCISM TO GIVE GROUP LECTURES | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

In the December issue of College Humor there appeared an article on Harvard of today written by a gentleman known as Gilbert Seldes. In his literary attempt he endeavors to portray for the world a picture of Harvard and its students. With an all-inclusive view and swayed by destructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Page Mr. Seldes | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

"... So well defined are the doctrines and the principles upon which it [the Democracy] is founded, that it has survived defeat after defeat!" The 14,500,000 popular votes for Smith were cited; also the change of less than 500,000 which, "spread around the country, would have altered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President-Reject | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

First | Previous | 420 | 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | 425 | 426 | 427 | 428 | 429 | 430 | 431 | 432 | 433 | 434 | 435 | 436 | 437 | 438 | 439 | 440 | Next | Last