Word: marvelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...
...people round about did marvel at my great works, for my treasure did grow and did magnify by sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; and my wisdom was very great...
Perhaps the committee worked just a trifle too hard. The constitution that has been fashioned is, if nothing else, a marvel of complexity. In three concise sentences it lists the Society's purposes--to be hosts for visiting firemen, to orient new freshmen, and to perform other hospitable services. These, indeed, are worthy aims. But, rather than setting up a small, workable committee to put them into practice, the Council's group has drafted a long and involved hierarchy of committees. The actual work is to be done by a fairly large group of sophomore and junior candidates; formation...
...Genesis. When Hubble finished his "velocity-distance" law, he might have sat back (but probably did not) to marvel at his accomplishment. He had formulated the very first rule, buttressed with observation, that explained the behavior of every major unit in the visible universe. Other men (including Einstein) had theorized about the universe, using their minds as telescopes. Hubble had evolved his theory by looking at the universe itself...
...among us truly amazed that one John G. Winant could no longer endure this age [TIME, Nov. 10]? The marvel is that many more of us have not taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have...