Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-ending scouts declared that the Big Red, averaging 212 pounds per man from tackle to tackle, was even better now than they were at the close of last season. The scouts spoke of the "catlike" ability of all American Brud Holland in tones of awe and they fairly sang the praises of the "ghost-runner" George Peck, who piled up most of the running back punt yardage, 162 to be exact...
...William remembers that he watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright...
...uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials, back they go to the U. S., devout Fascists all, to awe and convert their neighbors...
...changes enormously complicate the army's No. 1 problem in wartime: how to insure adequate supplies for easily assembled and quickly trained fighting forces. That task belongs not to General Craig but to a balding, agile gentleman whom older army officers call "that boy" in tones varying from awe to horror. Louis Arthur Johnson...
...between a horse and an ass rarely breeds, whether mated with another mule, ass or with a horse. Hence, when a mule belonging to Don Salvador Calero foaled in Buga, Colombia, last week, local veterinarians were astonished, called it the first such case in the history of the republic. Awe-struck Colombians gathered at Calero's stable, gladly paid admission to see the mule foal. To the ignorant and superstitious the unnatural event was disturbing...