Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval aviation in fiscal 1938, Congress appropriated $51,500,000; two years later, $111,459,000. Jack Towers now has the job of spending $1,578,000,000. Stacked against total naval appropriations and authorizations ($13,100,000,000), even that sum might seem small to citizens imbued with awe of the Luftwaffe. Jack Towers says that he considers it not only a fair proportion of the total, but even more than the naval air service might reasonably have expected...
...nothing better to offer than something about character. That was what it was that made Gehrig great above and beyond his size and achievements, and it is no credit to the breed that so many of us are so unlike this fine man that we must stand in such awe of his simple virtues...
...impression of this brief journey to Lilliput is one of awe for the invention, mechanical ingenuity, imagination and grinding labor that create Disney cartoons. From the intelligent, cheerful appearance of the creator's employes, it appears to be no secret to them how good they and their product...
...first clear picture ever made of a molecule was last week shown on a lantern slide. Some of the ablest U.S. scientists-members of the American Philosophical Society, founded 198 years ago by Benjamin Franklin-gaped in awe, for they were seeing something never before distinctly seen...
...stone had been put down for a foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat, an expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there...