Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collateral marvel of their work was the speed with which their news reached the world. As soon as they relanded at Deception Island, Captain Wilkins sent a long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
...Some came to doubt and remained to marvel at the will to do, on the part of this extraordinary woman. Some were frankly puzzled, yet duly appreciative of the pictorial impressiveness offered by the singer. None was enthusiastic over her vocal attainment; yet the audience, as a whole, paid tribute to her magnetism, her beauty, her taste and her resolute courage...
Professor Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...Ledbetter Lee, mercurial informator, pronounces Wells "delightful, and his good-natured banter and satire a marvel of fine conversation." Versatile extremes, such as Kipps and The Time Machine, Floor Games for Children and The Undying Fire, mark his tremendous output of some fifty volumes aside from articles and pamphlets...
...number of college oarsmen testifies to the fact that there is hidden in the chiseled motion of an eight a subtle fascination. The Harvard Athletic Association has always seen to it that facilities are available for everyone who wished to experience the peculiar pleasure of rowing, and today visitors marvel at the great number of shells which leaves the boat houses every afternoon...