Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...
...Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
Nonetheless, convening educators last week resolved on mass demonstrations throughout the land next autumn "to impress the entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...
...does nothing else, such a book as Property or Peace should impress its readers with the fact that in a world of tear-gas bombs, castor oil. strikes and politico-religious excommunications there is still such a thing as tart reasonableness...
...Paraguay bought 5,000,000 rifle cartridges. Peru, which last week agreed to drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further to impress his adversary Yahya the Imam of Yemen. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had just put in an order for 2,000,000 British rifle cartridges...