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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembered that some years ago Marjorie Rambeau met with her first great success in that violent melodrama, "The Eyes of Youth". Having at last seen the play without her charming presence, we wonder how she ever managed to do it. The task mush have been a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

...exclaimed the publishers of the Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan). It was small wonder that the musings of J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick differed from the poet: they had not committed his indiscretions, nor had he made a fortune by collecting pennies from the gum-chewers of a great nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When Portland Went Crazy | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...decisive victories to its credit will encounter a Harvard nine at its best no more than fair. Owen Carroll, the best pitcher in college baseball, is ready to take the mound. The experts hesitate, however, to predict the Holy Cross landslide that comparative scores presage for they cannot but wonder if history will repeat itself. Will Harvard rise to the occasion this afternoon as it has in the past and play inspired baseball? That is the question that will fill the Soldiers Field stands for the first time this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURPLE SEEKS FIFTH STRAIGHT WIN TODAY | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

...with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Budget | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...course there is a lot of soldiering to do, but the work puts a man in shape for football and the other fall sports. As Robert T. Fisher, the Head Football Coach at Harvard said, 'Many young men wonder what to do during the summer months in order to prepare themselves for football in the fall. In my opinion nothing could be more beneficial than a month spent at a Citizens' Military Training Camp at Camp Devens. It has been my observation that good military men always make good players. It is easy to understand why training and discipline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. M. T. C. TRAINING CAMPS CATER TO MEN NOT BOYS | 5/6/1924 | See Source »

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