Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nest, or stays awake all night on the Pacific shore to hear the night cries of snowy plover, he is wholly an amateur of wild life. His books are secretions, not products or "copy." Hence, perhaps, the freshness and simplicity of his writing. He never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse and so keenly felt that there is no need for literary dramatizing. It is enough to be nature's mirror. The first of these essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks...
What an interesting season this assures the public! M. Jacchia will group around him musicians on whom he will impress his own dislike for the rival organization. He will then rehearse these men for the sole diabolical purpose of outdoing his enemy. It will be a competition of genius, not for pecuniary gain but for the sake of art--and for revenge...
Roger W. Babson, statistician: "To impress upon the 13th annual National Business Conference, which met as my guests at Wellesley Hills, Mass., the dangers of overextending the instalment business, I said, that 'a distinct recession in business and possibly a panic within two or three years would not be surprising...
Tons of "franked" (free) mail choke mail chutes on the way to impress or entertain voters these days. Congressmen tell mothers how to raise babies or crops, congratulate families on a new birth -all to let it be known that soon is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their party. Thirty-four Senators in 32 states (27 seats now Republican) in the autumn Senatorial contest will determine how the country feels in a general way over the issues last week outlined by party "Spokesmen" Lawrence C. Phipps, chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee...
...Senators from the West are attempting to bring up anything that may impress the electors 'back home,' and even so able a man as Borah allows himself to be drawn into the old forms of mischief making...