Word: impactions
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...committee gets an interview with the President, it will try to impress upon him the "disastrous impact" it feels the University's action will have on married students...
...with his major adversary still as potent as ever, Field took on two more. For $5,339,000, he bought the afternoon Times, a peppy, popular and moneymaking tabloid competing with John S. Knight's Daily News and Hearst's Herald-American. Six months later, under the impact of the Chicago printers' strike, the Sun and Times were merged into a Vari-Typed 24-hour tabloid...
...Virgin Land" traces the impact of the West on the consciousness of Americans by analyzing its literature and social thought from the beginning until 1892 when the frontier was officially pronounced closed. Henry Nash Smith starts out by describing the early lack of interest in penetrating the continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route...
...Factual Spirit. There had been disappointments, Vandenberg conceded, and there was reason for legitimate and necessary criticism; the "impact of Communist aggression in the Far East" could not be ignored. "These are essential subjects for judicial congressional survey in that same factual spirit which must continue to strive to put our country first in our consideration...
Christians, says Canon Bell, have a tendency not only to exalt the Church as the end rather than the means of their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability...