Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smaller though a large number of graduate students, who perhaps like myself did not have the good fortune to sit in Mr. Kittredge's undergraduate courses, will remember both the awe and the gratitude that he inspired...
...mild mannered little man a graduate student, who gives little hint of the hectic world over which he presides, but it is Leonard who is the invisible power of Memorial Hall, and it is Leonard to whom study cards eventually find their way after being deposited in awe-inspiring University...
They are a sensible, hardworking, sometimes overserious staff, no New Deal crackpots. Secretary Stimson assigns them jobs, turns them loose to let them work in their own way, backs them up in emergencies, and holds them fully accountable for results. All his aides stand in considerable awe of him. For his anger is withering although as cold as his logic...
...continue the administration of affairs until a successor could be found. While foreign correspondents in Tokyo were trying desperately to puzzle out what this meant, just as suddenly Prince Konoye emerged as his own successor, threw together a new Cabinet. "I am struck with a sense of great awe," observed Prince Konoye with high humor, "because of my poor ability...
...Congress for a whopping big addition to the funds authorized for Britain and China under the Lend-Lease Act. It was hinted that the sum requested might come to as much as $7,000,000,000. In far-off Argentina the Buenos Aires Standard looked on in awe, headlined a story about the President's appropriations: "Oliver Twist of the West," after Dickens' hungry boy who wanted more treacle...