Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ago, Jim McDonald and his Varsity soccer men spoke in awe-filled whispers about a mighty squad of booters down at Providence which was laying waste the aspirations of all New England, Brown with one of the greatest soccer elevens in the history of the college was making...
Attempts by sociologists or vertebrate zoologists to classify the Radcliffile as a distinct type have usually failed, due to extreme personality variations among the cases studied. The only carmarks that approach universality are that (1) they typically display an awe of the sacred name of Harvard; (2) they have at least a passing interest in intellectual subjects (investigations prove that the median I.Q. of women is more than 10 points higher in Harvard Square than it is in Scollay Square); and (3) they are females (though this is of doubtful value in some cases). Any further scientific description calls...
...Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, a man of strong will and a friend of the Axis, was to head the nation. General Tojo hurried to the Emperor's presence and, leaving it, announced: "I have received an Imperial Command to form a new Cabinet and am overwhelmed with awe...
Radios and phonographs (taxed 10% as compared with 5½% last year) were close behind. Said an executive of Manhattan's Davego-City Radio chain (which normally sells at discounts up to 30%) in a tone of awe and wonderment: "They're even buying at list prices...
...remember only one occasion when his awe-inspiring dignity was a little impaired,--another dramatic performance of his, which ended this time in something bordering on comedy. The Division of Modern Languages was holding a doctoral examination in the open-air loggia behind Warren House, and some little street boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the learned assembly. Mr. Kittredge, who was presiding, asked me to take the chair, picked up a hat from the next seat, and chased the boys to Harvard Square. In a few minutes he returned, leading by each hand a cowering little gamin, whom...