Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paymore--I shall impress it upon them at once...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...
...time to get married because their honeymoon boat leaves so soon for Honolulu. Later, arrived an airplane to speed up the [situation. Rupert Hughes was responsible for the plot; Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel were the principal performers. Miss Shearer demonstrates that she can omit emotion and still impress the watcher as a leader of the younger actresses...
...Presentation of Christ in the Temple" has been dramatized and is presented immediately after the reading of the lesson. This form of Drama was most popular in the Mediaeval period and was later revived by St. Philip Neri during the 16th century in Rome. Its great function was to impress upon the unlettered people of the day the biblical and historical background of the feasts and festivals of the Church Year, and also to make the Ceremonials more attractive to those who were losing their interest in religious things...
Dean Greenough believes very strongly in the popularization of scholarship and has devoted a great deal of attention to this problem. He feels that there is no reason why high scholastic honors should not be of equal importance to high athletic honors, and has attempted to impress this fact on the student body. That his efforts in this direction have already yielded important results is borne out by the fact that almost half of the officers of the graduating class last year, many of whom were prominent athletes, received high honors