Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earthquakes occur when the earth seeks relief from the strain of forces acting upon it-volcanic forces, shifts of pressure due to erosion, possibly tidal forces and the centrifugal pull of terrestrial rotation. There are vertical thrusts, sending up new islands to astonish mariners, building new mountains, deepening the seas; horizontal movements producing faults or sudden slips of rock masses along previously existing faults...
...Esty) Stowell '34, who consistently broke his own record and came within a hair of breaking the world's mark for the back-stroke. When Coach Ulen wasn't talking about Stowell, he was marvelling at George C. Scott '34, who came up from a House team to astonish tire coach as a sprint star. In his Junior year, Scott was just another swimmer for Lowell House. In his Senior year he took both short distance events at the Eastern Intercollegiates at Rutgers...
...well posted on all the recent events as she was. I found, as a matter of fact, that I had a rather more thorough knowledge of international affairs and national politics than she had acquired from the diffuse stories of the daily papers, and I was able to astonish her with my questions about new books and new plays of which I had read in TIME. I feel deeply grateful for what your magazine...
...Vagabond and The Friend had seen everything that there was to see in the distant corners of this Great Commonwealth of Intellects and now they were returning to the Yard for the Big Surprise. The Vagabond had been keeping the New Chapel up his sleeve waiting to astonish The Friend with its splendor. They had visited Adams House and its brilliant Early Eclectic purity filled the imagination of The Friend. Architecture can go no further, he thought...
...calling his wife Momma or cracking such a joke as "it won't be long now." Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile millionaire in Asia Minor as a preliminary to smoking imitation hashish through a gasoline pipe...