Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio has awe-inspiring educational possibilities. An instructor in the Haaren High School delivered his lecture from the Waldorf-Astoria, and ended with a test question to which he unfortunately broadcast the wrong answer. To make it worse, the Superintendent of Schools was listening in at 500 Park Avenue...
...aspired to flight in the air ever since he was created. In pagan mythology it was left to the gods to sail through space, and their soaring was looked upon with awe. Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines...
...critical opinion: POOR PINNEY-Marian Chapman -Boni ($2.00). Poor Pinney is an inoffensive, pathetic and extremely objectionable little commuter. He is a tyrant in his own home and keeps up a brave front over his abysmal internal hollowness. He looks up to the local Babbitts with a marked awe, which he refuses to acknowledge to himself. His ship is always on its way in and never docks. His story is told with meticulous attention to the detail of his vulgarisms. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR-Lee Wilson Dodd-Button ($2.00). Mr. Dodd calls his book "the crabbed chronicle of a misanthrope...
...With a lavish hand, nature has moulded throughout our land the most magnificent and awe inspiring scenery, surpassing in beauty and grandeur that offered by any foreign country. ... In the name of the Government I invite you to be its guest...
...dusty crimsons meet the eye except high in the chancel where a circular, stained glass window reveals sea greens and yellows and scarlets. The seasoned browns and dusty crimsons are, perhaps, symbolic of the past; the greens and yellows and scarlets, of the future. Here they meet in mutual awe...