Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal; and thus become inspired with the noblest impulses that can thrill the human soul--the ambition to lift up his head in the sunlight of hope and thank God and take on new courage...
...rounds of the provincial universities, and incredible as it may seem, the visitors have been made to feel that their hosts were really glad to see them and anxious to hear what they had to say. And there are few Harvard men who would not feel a real thrill of pride could they realize how deeply the French care for the good opinion and sympathy of this University--how strongly they desire "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," as they often expressed it. President Eliot's views concerning it have been widely read in France...
There is no one who has not felt the thrill, the horror of the European war. At first almost impossible of comprehension, we have gradually come to consider it not only a reality but a common-place. Yet at some time every American must have asked himself whether he too would give his life in case our country should ask it. If we have had near relatives and friends who have volunteered or have already fallen it may have been even harder to sit still as a mere spectator of the most tremendous and disastrous war in history...
...Jackson does not have to follow Mr. Wood across the Pacific; he finds all the thrill he wants no further west than Coyotte Falls. There is a real Injun there, a survivor of the old literary race fast disappearing--a bad Injun who says "How" and knows the ghost dance song and has a great grey eagle to preside over his passing. Only there is no damsel this time...
...Harvard football player declared after the Princeton game that the greatest thrill he ever experienced was when the team was cheered at the Princeton locker building for its 3 to 0 victory. This is proof to every Harvard man that his spirit will tell in the Yale game. Every vestige of over-confidence has been wiped out of the College during the last two weeks. Harvard is now going to show her spirit in a mass meeting and parade. The thought that the Stadium has never seen Yale defeated has galled us long enough. It is time that the prophecy...