pression
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Their managers always have the im- pression that the voters who do not vote would vote for their candidates if they got to the polls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thanks to Talon's spectacular growth and a new American Viscose Corp. rayon plant, it scarcely felt the de pression of the '305.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the past six weeks he had been a voluntary patient for chronic manic de pression at a psychiatric hospital in suburban Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
He never laughs; he rarely even smiles, and then only on his son; his countenance ordinarily bearing a look of bitterness tempered by affection, while his general ex- pression is one of caressing tenderness.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules
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