Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...become thoroughly accustomed to it. They will not pull over the four-mile course in it at full speed, however, until two days before the race. Then they will be sent for all they are worth, and if nothing happens they are going to make time that will astonish some of the chronic grumblers who are always and forever finding fault with the crew, the coach, the management and everything connected with the navy...
...died before it had completed its first year. The ball, however, had now been set a rolling, and from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means of subsistence-financial difficulties have brought their careers...
...wants of the students for many years to come. At that time the supposition was certainly warranted, for the athletic spirit among the students was a matter of much less concern than at present. Since that day the attention paid to general athletics has grown to proportions which would astonish a student of that time. The provisions made for furnishing lockers to the students were found to be inadequate to the demand as early as last year, and now the increased supply is not only entirely taken up, but applications are constantly being received which the management of the gymnasium...
...time of his death he was gaining a strong foothold among the scholars of the North, who seemed incapable of resisting the seductive reasoning of his perceptive, comprehensive and analytic mind. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire once came to my seat and said: 'I am going to astonish you. Mr. Calhoun has just brought to me a letter, which he said he had just received from President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and asked me a great many questions about him and the college. He left asserting that President Lord was one of the ablest thinkers and profoundest...
...does not hear so much about young men working through a course at college in this age of rapidly made fortunes. Neither does the student who considers a suite of luxuriously furnished rooms a necessity astonish the world by a brilliant record. What is the effect on the really and truly poor young man? It is no romance, but a stern reality, that requires a vast deal of moral courage and self-respect to enable him to hold on to his poverty and go through. Ten chances to one he will, if he does go through, come out ahead...