Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, to his mingled anger, awe and pride, to the horror of persons who view with alarm the increased supervision of private life by Federal authority, and to the satisfaction of persons who like to think of the U. S. Government as "Uncle Sam," Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s license was suspended for 90 days by the Federal Radio Commission, whose chairman, Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, addressed Eric H. Palmer Jr. as follows...
Then began a veritable orgy of sightseeing. Copper-colored cadets were motored here and there to gaze in awe at skyscrapers; to the cinema, to a baseball match, to interminable feasts and receptions. Nine days they stayed, then went their...
Warning signals are already being posted by the Proctors in the Freshman Dormitories. Student advisers, if they happen to remember, add their share to the chorus. And the trembling Freshman wonder with awe about these "November hours" that occur so mysteriously in October while the confident and carefree Freshman is urged to tremble by his mentors...
...naturalistic and pages are filled with physiological explanations. They are very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging of her kiss...
...being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour has come, and he has been called to whatever Valhalla has been prepared...