Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will be completely and expertly accomplished by said means...
...amazingly prophetic, frothy mouthed, full text of Mein Kampf has now become a historical curiosity as well as a psychopathic marvel, and last week, on the same day, two Manhattan publishing firms brought out the first unexpurgated U. S. translations of the Nazi Good Book. One firm (Reynal & Hitchcock) will presumably earn royalties for the Führer, the other (Stackpole), being printed in defiance of the Hitler copyright, will not. Excess profits from both will go to German refugee organizations...
Generally known as "Flemish primitives," these 15th-Century artists were primitive in little but their religious sincerity. Modern painters marvel at the jewel-like permanence of color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...
Anent the New Zealand egg story [TIME, Feb. 13]. No marvel to readers is the fact that bedridden Harold Ryder "set" on a chicken egg and succeeded in hatching it. Any constantly warm location would have done the same for said egg. The marvel lies in the fact that Mr. Ryder, who probably weighs between 100 and 200 pounds, was able to lie abed with an egg for 25 days and nights and not so much as crack the shell...
...lineups: ELIOT 0 DUDLEY 2 Ossaus, l.w. l.w., Marvel Bird, c. c., Noone Edgar, r.w. r.w., Koufman Jaretzki, r.d. r.d., Kane Soule, l.d. l.d., Ulin Lillie, g. g., Allen LOWELL 3 WINTHROP 0 Finn, l.w. l.w., Thorndike Blotner, c. c., Rousmaniere Swift, r.w. r.w., Hornblower Deering, r.d. r.d., Wood, H. Dowd, l.d. l.d., Culley Gordon, g. g., Regan DUNSTER 5 KIRKLAND 0 Downes, l.w. l.w. Rower Doughty, c. c., Dempsey Pierpent, r.w. r.w., Williams Gerrity, l.d. l.d., Cogswells Scholfield, r.d. r.d., Law Kayser, g. g., Evers LEVERETT 2 ADAMS 2 Stohn, l.w. l.w. Carr Daughaday, W., c. c., Gorham Bremer...