Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adequate" is probably the best adjective to describe the 1948-1949 edition of the freshman basketball team. Its record is scarcely awe-inspiring (two losses out of six), but if spunk and alertness are criteria of good basketball performance the Yearlings are having a successful season...
This mental bloc, so to speak, reacted in the teams they brought with them to the Stadium. So, what was generally interpreted as Stadiumitis on the part of Brown, was in reality a combined fear and awe-of Harvard, planted in Brown, by the coaches themselves...
...good example of what has happened is the Bayerische Motorenwerke, whose automobiles used to be regarded with the same awe in prewar Germany as the Stutz Bearcat in the U.S. of the '20s. Not a single one of the plant's buildings escaped bomb damage; 95% of its remaining equipment was dismantled. "It was all earmarked for India," related Plant Manager Kurt Donath, "but then India was divided into two nations which apparently weren't on the best of terms. Anyway, the representative of one part came here and took all the good machines. Later the representative...
Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
...part, Joe looks with awe on Broadway footlights and the people who work behind them. In Manhattan, he lives in a 54th Street apartment hotel, not far from the theatrical swirl, and he sees as many plays as he can (some recent favorites: High Button Shoes, Show Boat, Annie Get Your...