Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hallowed impress...
...through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich and spoiled, with a suite at the Taft Hotel, another in New York, and a sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived upperclassmen with whom they find themselves thrown; or full-blooded Nordics soon to go into training? The parental attitude was: our son is unusual (or erratic or talented or temperamental or stupid) and he needs special, individual attention. The Rosenbaum Tutoring School gave him special attention, mentally...
...materials of education are facts, ideas, and ideals. Its tools are two minds: one superior, the other inferior, one to impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...their current fable gives good opportunity. It is another light comedy, the tale of a Western youth cast loose along Broadway with adequate funds. It brings in, by picture and by name, all the actual night clubs of the district, a comely telephone operator, a father who fails to impress upon his son the ultimate delights of the domestic fireside...
...wish to impress upon you that the system of national defense which Congress has established is wholly unfitted for aggression. It would be several months-nine at least-before we could make our Army into a combat army at full strength...