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Word: marvelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never has the world ceased to marvel at the success which will attend simplicity. Christianity began simply, was simple, flourished. So, too, "Christian Endeavor," from its crowded international convention last week at Portland, Ore., beamed forth its simplicity; the world beamed yonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Endeavor | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...applause in English 41, which has become an annual event, and an annual marvel, may be interpreted as an expression of gratitude from several hundred normal undergraduates to a professor who has made a sincere and successful attempt to be human as well as instructive throughout the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY MAKE KNOWLEDGE ODIOUS? | 5/27/1925 | See Source »

Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock the ticket office of the H. A. A. will open to members of the University who wish to see Paavo Nurmi, the Finish track marvel, run in the Stadium on Friday afternoon. Two tickets in sections 1 to 26, which constitute the whole east side of the stands, will be alloted to each member in the order of application. These tickets will not be specified for any particular seats but for general admission to the sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TICKETS FOR NURMI RACE TO BE ALLOTED TOMORROW | 5/19/1925 | See Source »

...collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story), Sssssssssshhhh (a satiric story), Spring Flow'rets or Womanhood Eternal (a sex story), will marvel at the ingenious craftsmanship, vociferate their appreciation of the smarty wit of this Punchinello, Connell. If, sometimes, they prickle in amazement to discover that they themselves have on the pantaloons, that Connell is the gentleman who laughs, why should they mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saga in Sand | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires to the audience as it was for him to do so to his idol. In his scenes with Miss La Gallienne his passion verged very closely on the conventional; she never fell to such, but was always a marvel of restraint--and truth...

Author: By T. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

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