Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Corps marched gallantly down the street towards Soldiers Field. To anyone watching a thrill of power must have come at this epitomized unison and strength. Two peasant women from some state in Southern Europe stood stolidly looking at the companies go past. They watched dully and stupidly. On the head of each was balanced a huge overtopping bundle which must have rested not lightly on the cushions of their brains. They were of the ruled class of Europe...
Class football games are on! And who can witness four embryonic linemen from Smith Halls attempting to stop a charging fury from Thayer without a thrill. Not only is the singular bravery to be commended, but also the love of the game which was in great evidence. It is at least encouraging to see that the undergraduates care enough about football as a sport to play and play hard, although eighty thousand voices are not yelling encouragement and no band is playing inspiring music. These interclass contests are a valuable institution--they ought to be more of them...
...much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...
...Shattuck. "There are yet many obscurities in medical knowledge," said Dr. Cannon; "for instance, scarlet fever, measles, infantile paralysis, and cancer afford wide fields of investigation. The average physician may not make worldwide discoveries, yet, like a picture puzzle, every addition is needed. There is a certain thrill that comes to a man when he makes a great discovery; he realizes that he has found a truth, a truth which will help mankind...
...volume holds us to the last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with the trials and tribulations of the various peoples in a very sane and sympathetic manner. The book contains a number of illustrations, most of which show interesting documents...