Word: astonishment
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...more contact of University professors in the world outside their academic cloister. Business men, politician, radicals, and Hearst have all at one time or another cried for it. This particular application of the idea, as Mark Twain said of always doing right, "will gratify some, and astonish the rest...
Said earnest Miss Warner: "I am a virgin. Yes, that will astonish you French! I am making plenty of money and I have no need...
Earthquakes occur when the earth seeks relief from the strain of forces acting upon it-volcanic forces, shifts of pressure due to erosion, possibly tidal forces and the centrifugal pull of terrestrial rotation. There are vertical thrusts, sending up new islands to astonish mariners, building new mountains, deepening the seas; horizontal movements producing faults or sudden slips of rock masses along previously existing faults...
...Esty) Stowell '34, who consistently broke his own record and came within a hair of breaking the world's mark for the back-stroke. When Coach Ulen wasn't talking about Stowell, he was marvelling at George C. Scott '34, who came up from a House team to astonish tire coach as a sprint star. In his Junior year, Scott was just another swimmer for Lowell House. In his Senior year he took both short distance events at the Eastern Intercollegiates at Rutgers...
...well posted on all the recent events as she was. I found, as a matter of fact, that I had a rather more thorough knowledge of international affairs and national politics than she had acquired from the diffuse stories of the daily papers, and I was able to astonish her with my questions about new books and new plays of which I had read in TIME. I feel deeply grateful for what your magazine...