Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who looked at the Tiger offense last Saturday were amazed at the elusiveness of Garry LeVan, but these same spectators will hold their breath while the great Jack Buckler tosses random passes on the dead run. They will marvel at the driving power of Joe Stancook, who smashes the line like a second Bronko Nagurski...
Many a Catholic paying his penny for Catholic Missions will marvel that it could be produced so cheaply. Few will be aware that it is not only the first religious picture magazine but also the biggest job of rotogravure ever clone in the U. S.- 2,843,000 copies of the first issue. That its price was shaved to 1? is chiefly due to the work of a boyish young priest named Rev. James G. Keller...
Last week China was crowing loudly over a marvel unknown to medical history. Not ultraphenomenal sextuplets, not hypersuperlative septuplets, but metaphysical octuplets were blazoned in the headlines of the Chinese Press. Seven sons and a daughter, seven felicitous stars and a comforting moon, were reported to have been born several months ago to the wife of Sam Ting, a Pearl River boatman. Only trouble with this Chinese marvel was that no one could substantiate it because Sam Ting, Mrs. Ting & family were supposed to be boating somewhere in Pearl River delta below Canton...
...from a few millions to two billion in the last 2,000 years, the world can count mathematically on only one set of octuplets being born every 690,000 years. As Physicist James Jeans declares that the Age of Man runs back 300,000 years, Mrs. Ting's marvel seemed to be some 390,000 years ahead of time...
Neither cheerful nor proud was Papa Ovila Dionne last week at his frontier farmhouse near Callander, Ont. as his five little daughters went into a third recordbreaking week of life, to the marvel of the medical profession throughout the world. Marie, the frailest, upon whom the others had rolled when they were all in the one butcher's basket, was the first one to be placed in an incubator all to herself. Five days later each of the other four had her private quarters and a better chance for life. Three trained nurses were...