Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, continuing his breakfast diplomacy, again had a picked group of Senators and Representatives at his matutinal board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
...would never do to impress the authorities with the notion that the spring recess is unwelcome. Anything would be welcome after Cambridge at this gusty indecisive season of the year; but the certainty that it is coming, that it will be like previous spring vacations, that it will not even have the opportunity to be at a different time is sure to emasculate its pleasing qualities. A constructive suggestion might not be out of place. Let Olympus keep its own counsel in the matter until a day or so before the bomb is to burst; then let the ukase...
...last pretences had been to make Elliott go hunting on the veld every year, as bigger men did. She could then send game to impress her friends. Even with the baby coming she had insisted he leave her to hunt. Elliott's usual hunting partner failing, she let little Jackie...
...legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system, which relegated private education to a special, a subordinate place in the democracy's pedagogical program. It is most improbable that the appointment of a new headmaster at The Hill, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss...
...Tiger team which lost to the Crimson puck men last winter by a 4 to 2 score, with the exception of Stout, will be on hand tomorrow night either as starters or as reserves. In spite of the veteran line-up the Orange and Black six has failed to impress this year, and after the remarkable stand against the Canadians, the University stick men appear to have more than an even chance to register another...