Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. When he finished, he was the idol of his troops, the deadliest chieftains were captured or dead, the Moros for the first time in history were living at peace with themselves and others, under the aegis of the Great White Sultan, which title they bestowed upon him with awe and affection...
...Miracle. Chicago had its longest coattails pressed, its tallest collars starched. It bought new gowns. It ordered orchids and gardenias. It swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very awe which the massive dimensions of the pyramids inspired, would prove the undoing of their hopes of eternal rest. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the course of his wanderings, has left a vast legacy of the stories and superstitions current in his day. The tales regarding kings buried deep...
...ever feel the reality and the weigth of history so deeply as when he stands in the presence of the venerable monuments of antiquity. This is what makes a visit to Rome, Athens, or Memphis so impressive, so full of awe. In the Museum are written records of a period so ancient as to make moderns of Moses and Homer, revealing a civilization so remote as to fill our minds with wonder. These oldest remains come, of course, from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the culture of which was a mixture of Semitic and non-Semitic elements. This culture profoundly influenced...
Roman Catholics in the U. S. turned their hearts and thoughts with extraordinary awe last week to Rome, meekly regretting their inability to be there in person the day before Christmas to see His Holiness Pius XI close with his own hands, with a jeweled trowel of ivory and silver spread mortar and set stones to close the Holy Door in the portico of St. Peter's magnificent basilica on the 23rd Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands...