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Word: awe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awe-inspiring," exclaims Gold Digger Douglas Fairbanks Jr. when they first sight an Inca ruin, "like the great ruins at Ankor." Undeniably awe-inspiring, the ruins look more like the trylon at the New York World's Fair with the top knocked off. Soon the diggers are blowing the ruins to bits. They have the hidden treasures neatly crated in their jungle hideaway by the time Joan Bennett arrives in quest of her explorer husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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