Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state carriage, drawn by high-stepping horses made its way through the streets of Paris, eliciting much comment and wonder from the onlookers...
...first half Coach Wachter's men, freed from the shackles of the Intercollegiate League guarding that has hampered them for the past fornight, celebrated their emancipation by a basketthrowing orgy. At half time the score was 23 to 5 and the wonder was that the margin was no greater. Rauh and Gordon were in their best scoring form and the Rhode Island defense was scarcely worthy of the name...
Unfortunately this is not Xanadu nor has there yet appeared any wonder-working Kubla Khan. In twentieth century America all structures, whether material like pleasure domes or intellectual like educational systems must be built slowly and with particular attention to solidity. Thus almost all construction which necessitates broad and deep foundations necessitates also the employing of some temporary shelter in which the builders can work and think until the edifice which they have conceived rise over and around them in its complete and adequate proportions...
...nomad by nature. But in my wanderings over the earth, one longing has always burned before me like a star, the need of a single, great consuming love. I have been constant to my ideal of womanhood. Now that ideal is realized in my marriage, do you wonder that I am the most joyful man in the world...
When questioned about the clock's occasional Japees from strict accuracy Mr. Walford replied. "Its no wonder. That clock has been there for 28 years and it's never been overhauled once". He denied the rumor that the clock gaine one minute a week regularly. "Why it gained 20 minutes in three hours once," he exclaimed. "You never can tell what it will...