Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lately met a successfull Girl Graduate, and melancholy indeed was the impression she made upon me. She had passed the examinations with the highest honors, and she was pointed out to me as a perfect marvel of knowledge, a walking encyclopeadia of buried languages...
...issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
That thou mayst marvel how the would-be wise...