Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been arranging certain experiments in reference to the notion that gravity . . . may be related . . . to the other powers of matter and proceeded this morning to make them. . . . It was almost with a feeling of awe that I went to work, for if the hope should prove well founded . . . how large may be the new domain of knowledge opened up to the mind...
...Awe. "At last my turn came. As I curtsied I could see the King's kind face and the gracious smile of the Queen. I was much too awed by their extreme royal dignity and presence to feel at all nervous...
...always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children of the neighboring Harvard Grammar School obey instructions and occasionally file to the spot, to leave some slight offering, gaze in awe at the name which they vaguely remember having heard in some other connection, and quietly depart...
Last week those of Rome's lower classes who were able to read perused with awe an announcement made by one Dr. A. Degil Espinosa, whom U. S. correspondents described as a "financial expert." After several months of careful figuring Dr. Espinosa published his estimate of the private wealth in Italy-$25,000,000,000. Of this amount, he computed that $8,000,000,000 was in the form of land, $1,250,000,000 in foreign bonds...
There is something awe-inspiring about such efficiency. When the Freshman walks to morning classes even the mud on his shoes is a tribute to progress and seems only vaguely out of place in venerable Sever. Perhaps tomorrow morning will dawn on the completed Plan, with rhododendrons sprouting, the dadoes displaying a natural wood finish, and a piano recital in full swing. When this tomorrow arrives and the finished product, treated with muriatic acid and delicately dressed in English Ivy, appears before the undergraduate, he may find it palatable after...