Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curricular activities so that one type is admitted to the exclusion of all others. Fortunately at Harvard nearly every individual may find in some club a congenial group. Consequently, and to the advantage of the system, no very large number of students regard any particular set of clubs with awe. What is suitable for one man is not so for another...
...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...
...finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose thrust into a book. Mr. Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen in awe to their son's condescending accounts of long arguments with Mr. Calisch. They looked at one another anxiously when Emanuel devoured every published detail of the murder of a small Jewish boy, Bobbie Franks, by two intellectual, older Jewish boys, Leopold and Loeb, in Chicago...
...witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the St. Louis Cathedral. Last week, following appropriately the brilliant pageant of the Eucharistic Congress, church princes, prelates, priests participated in the medieval liturgy of consecration. Seven o'clock in the morning saw 8,000 reverent worshipers on Lindell Boulevard gazing awe-struck at the Cathedral's granite walls, at its glistening green dome. The massive doors swung open. Came forth in stately procession acolytes, priests, deacons, followed by Archbishop Glennon wearing a white cope and carrying the episcopal crozier. Thrice this holy array rounded the Cathedral. Thrice the Archbishop stopped...
...again. It is hard to believe that a man endowed with sympathy could not find, even in "Vandalia", where Mr. Boas' professor fell on such rocky soil, people with vivacious minds, and to be sure that the fault did not lie chiefly with the professor who let bluster over-awe him. Evidently people were to him no even book, and he never passed beyond the title page...