Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With as much awe as if they were at the Indianapolis race track, 2,500 spectators watched last week's championship race. Round & round the little "hot-irons" whirred-motors whining, sputtering, filling the air with the peculiar odor of burning castor oil, dear to the nose of every auto-racing fan. No one has yet been killed on a Tom Thumb speedway, but accidents are not infrequent. Excited spindizzies have been known to get their arms or legs fractured by a whizzing car; tires have blown off into judges' faces; many cars have blown...
Generally speaking, in fact, the bards appear to be tongue-tied by their theme -perhaps through awe, perhaps through shame over faked emotions...
...student body, a few exist who have been born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...
...Deciding to go the whole artistic hog, they picked the highest of high-brow classical music. To do right by this music, the old mouse opera comedy was not enough. The Disney studio went high-brow wholesale, and Disney technicians racked their brains for stuff that would startle and awe rather than tickle the audience...
Professor Greenough represents all that is best in the New England traditions of sound family and firm living. One reads almost with awe of the grandmother. A minister's wife who kept together her family of husband and eight children on the enormous income of $350 a year, she was yet able to write:" . . . When I am continually exercised with the requisite care of the bodies of my children, and consider that the immortal part is of infinitely more importance. . . O that we could inspire the rising generation around us with a scnse of the importance and worth of time...