Word: marvellously
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With an early season win over Dartmouth, Harvard's Ivy League record remains 1-0, tops in the conference. Upsets dominated the weekend's Ivy slate, with Brown (0-11 as of last Friday) dumping both Penn and Princeton at the Bruin's Marvel Gym. In addition, Yale, after losing to Princeton Friday night, upset Penn, 49-48, on Saturday...
...bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word...
...Florida East Coast Railway stretched some 500 miles from Jacksonville to the Keys, but the 150-mile link between Miami and Key West was Flagler's crowning achievement. Begun in 1905, it was an engineering marvel of bridges and viaducts, with 80 miles of track built over water and the longest of the bridges spanning seven miles. A Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed the tracks on the Keys, but the roadbed was widened and opened as a highway...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...