Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main line of Britain's publicity as it appeared outside Great Britain during Lord Macmillan's first week was not to arouse hatred against Germany, but to show that normal European life was impossible unless Hitler was overthrown; not to arouse awe of Britain's military might, but to win confidence in Britain's aims...
...search for vanished British Missionary David Livingstone by the Floyd Gibbons of his age, Mr. Bennett's Henry Morton Stanley. To make the film, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent Mrs. Osa Johnson and a crew of technicians and extras to Africa for six months, had them assemble an authentic, awe-inspiring record of a savage country and people that would have scared Tarzan out of his breechclout. Back in Hollywood, Zanuck turned his album over to his ablest associate producer, Kenneth Macgowan, his ace action director, Henry King (In Old Chicago), gave them a foolproof cast headed by M.G.M...
...fourth floor at Newark he set aside two rooms and a corridor for Art; in 1909 it was incorporated as a museum and received $10,000 from the town to buy an Oriental collection. Director Dana wrote a little piece called The Museum of Interest and the Museum of Awe. Said...
...museum does not care to be of immediate practical use to the people who maintain it, help them to more intelligent enjoyment of daily life by adding interest to the common interest of that life, and seeks only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means of objects rare, old. costly, and of aristocratic history, it needs only acquire such objects, place them on walls or pose them in cases, speak with seeming authority of Art, Beauty, Esthetics, Styles, Periods, and the like, and rest content...
...wonder of life never paled for Professor Conklin. When he taught undergraduates and flashed images of microscopic plants and animals on a stereopticon screen, Conklin himself looked at them with open-mouthed awe. At the close of their senior year he always advised his students to get married the day after graduation. From 1908, he stayed at Princeton, ripening not only in years, but-as many other old-fashioned teachers do not-in wisdom and prestige...