Word: marvel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
...something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
Sophomore B--Stroke, R. A. Page '30; 7, E. T. Batchelder '30; 6, Rogers Donaldson '30; 5, C. S. Petrasch '30; 4, W. M. Marvel '30; 3, Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30; 2, J. C. Fiske '30; bow, Walworth Barbour '30; cox., C. G. Chase...
Like lions in a cage, 70 airplanes made to fly were wheeled last week into Convention Hall in Detroit. In a day, 30,000 persons came to the All-American Aircraft Show to see and marvel. Some stayed to buy, for this was a business show, with salesmen talking turkey, not an exhibition of good will...
...Faculty the student body comes in contact with the leading law teachers of the country, but it is only occasionally that they have the opportunity of hearing men of equal prominence in practice. This year the Society brought Silas H. Strawn, president of the American Bar Association, and Josiah Marvel, chairman of the Executive Council of the Law School. The appreciation of the student body for this service was shown by the fact that the lecture halls were filled each time, the total attendance being about...