Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silence seemed to thrill...
...carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once in a while heard some of the large Marconi stations. The thrill was so profound, that they went at their problems with a thousand times more energy...
...such a glow of untrammeled satisfaction pervaded the hearts of thinking men and women. At no time has the prospect of future peace seemed so bright as today when the ten-year naval holiday has begun. It is not often that the headlines carry such a real and lasting thrill. As Dr. McGilroy observed, there is nothing new we can say, yet who can keep silent...
...assumed especially large proportions. The newspapers, with their flaring headlines, keep us in a continual worry of excitement. We are rapidly becoming a "front-page" nation, whose creed is "it pays to advertise" and whose existence is bound up in the news of the hour. We pass from thrill to thrill almost without pause; and the greatest thrill of all is to know that one's name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved...
...will speak in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on Thursday, March 24, on "Flying Exploits of 1920." An expert on aviation long before the war so greatly increased the number of aviators, he will illustrate his speech with moving pictures of exceptional interest and thrill and will discuss his part in the bridging of the Atlantic and the continent by aeroplane...