Word: astounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this doesn't mean that there weren't some notable high points in last night's performance. Anyone familiar with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in previous years must have been amazed at their competence. Enough strings have finally been found and their quality could only astound in the Pastoral Symphony. Except for some weakness still lingering in the brass, they have become a capable and well integrated group of performers...
...cloud-hung peak, no yawning gorge, no waterfall's white and thundering precipice can astound the eye like New York. No traveler is ever prepared for it. The Big City is the work...
This recipe, with variations, seems to be the starting point of many a medical marvel-the transplantation of organs, resuscitation of the dead, the life-prolonging serum "ACS"-with which Russian physicians bemuse their foreign colleagues and astound the public (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944). Last week the discoverer of ACS ("anti-reticular cytotoxic serum") presented his notions and discoveries in the first English translation of his book The Prolongation of Life.* He also granted his first interview to the foreign press...
...Astounding Aquarius. The biggest astrological news was that the world was moving out of the brawling, nationalistic age of Pisces (the fish) and into the new, 2,156-year-cycle of Aquarius (the water-bearer). That meant a new era of "world brotherhood, flight and ether." ("We'll be weekending on the planets.") Said one astrologer: "It is here ... the developments will astound the world." Said another: "We are going to have rule by the masses...
...classrooms we find that Bernie (pronounce it any way yo-all want to) Bienvenu is never unprepared. It may have taken 20 minutes of mental hand-springs on his part but he did astound the class, proving that "bags without handles are no good." The class laughed, but Bernie knew he had not "missed the point" and was therefore happy. Note also the breathless response which this brought up from New Jersey...