Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mahatma" (Wonder Worker) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of the Non-Cooperatists, was released unconditionally from jail. For some time he has been in a hospital and his state of health was such that the attending physicians recommended six months at the seaside as indispensable for his convalescence...
...Calvin's Campaign" for the Republican nomination in 1924 marches on at a surprisingly steady and sure-footed gait-so steady, so surefooted that politicians and public alike are moved to wonder and to examine its propelling powers...
...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...
When one reads that a dinosaur egg of ten million years vintage is to be auctioned off by the New York Museum of Natural History to raise funds for continued Asiatic Research, one must wonder what market this stony curiosity will find. Mr. Andrews, the chief curator and wielder of the hammer in the present sale, evidently has no question for he states that bids will open at five thousand dollars. Certainly if any private citizen should buy it and not use it in the foundation of his house or as a stepping stone, he would need a room "founded...
...wonder if I dare," begins Anonymous, setting out to defy grammar and the social amenities. She has no need to say that she is a woman-he clams are in evidence from the beginning and, like a woman, she apologizes for them. Her anonymity must be respected, but it is quite evident that she has more than a passing familiarity with both society and journalism. Her book* has all the faults of good journalism: flippancy, occasional vulgarity, cleverness, false sophistication, interest...