Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tentative scatings announced yesterday by Mason Hammond '25, are: bow, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 7, C. N. Comstock '07; 6, W. M. Marvel '30; 5, H. B. Rood '31; 4, Arthur Smithies 1G; 3, Hammond; 2, W. O. Faxon '32; stroke, S. D. Peirce 4E.S.; cox, M. T. Nichols '31, M. A. Matthews 2G.B., or Irving Neiman '29. T. C. T. Buckley '32, G. W. Menke 1G.B., and W. G. Botzow 2L are also on the Ancient Mariners' squad...
...that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss's daughter-was being married. Now her page, already a marvel of descriptive prose, must outdo itself. Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that...
...Manhattan pre-showing of their stylish new Frigidaire (icebox) which "costs no more to run than one ordinary electric light bulb," Albert Einstein, on his way to Switzerland (instead of anti-Jew Germany) for the summer, got down on hands & knees to inspect the machine thoroughly, called it a "marvel," said it would be welcome in Europe where electricity is far dearer than...
...South American B. O. M.'s marvel that Mr. Duguid could have held, successfully, a 15-ft., struggling anaconda while his companion, wearing heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...valuable and decent thing to write English correctly, and with a proper regard for its extraordinary beauties," Mencken said. "If I were the editor of a daily newspaper I would certainly insist that even the sports pages be written for better than they are. I sometimes marvel that Americans are so insensitive to the gross abuse of their mother tongue. Certainly such a magazine as Time, if it were printed in England, would be denounced violently for its apparently deliberate degradation of the language...