Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave many of your readers a fine thrill in printing the picture of that wonderful character "Margery" in your issue of Feb. 21. Scientifically read, every feature and every line of that face indicates honesty and sincerity...
...Thrill of a Lifetime." the co-feature is a song-and-dance affair concerned with the adventures of a groupe of youngsters at a summer vacation camp...
...Vagabond finished his meal and strolled back to the Club Car. He loved to sit out on the observation platform and watch the world recede into the distance at the rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...
...faculty should not force students in the College to conform to their own standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about how Harvard fails to pay them any attention...
...great reward, aside from the fun of playing for the game's sake, and that is frequently beaten out of the most ardent devotees of the sport in the first weeks of practice, is the thrill that follows an earned victory. Often this year that thrill was snatched from the team by a run of bad luck, the like which hardened sports writers admitted they had not seen in many years...