Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invited to a Governor's Ball. On board Mrs. Pond watches over the health of her charges, supervises the cook, only professional member of the crew. The Indra stays at anchor every morning until the pupils have finished their reading and recitations. Seaman Pond does not stand in awe of College Boards. Says he: "Any boy this side of imbecility can be prepared to enter college...
...Hour later another and smaller waterspout raced in from the lake toward awe-struck Conneaut, expired in a lakeside park...
Almost with awe one scans the list of scholars on whom Harvard will bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...
...normal child celebrity, it is not contact with the adults whom she meets in her work which is dangerous but encounters with children of her own age. Accustomed to celebrities, her studio acquaintances treat Shirley Temple like an ordinary child. Ordinary children, by being shy and filled with awe, sometimes give her an exaggerated sense of her importance...
...since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...