Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supporter of Hiram Johnson. Immediately following the 1920 Convention he placed his services at the disposal of Mr. Harding. They were accepted, and led to his appointment to the Shipping Board. His social qualities did the rest. Able in conversation, brilliant at story telling and fond of golf-little wonder that he became one of the President's best friends...
...parallel to the French ferocity can be found near at hand; Curious crowds, returning from the baseball games at Soldiers Field, frequently pause to wonder at the most bloodcurdling game played in this country--lacrosse. The players run far and wide--especially far and the sticks, which developed from Indian war-clubs, are still used for this primitive purpose. The organization in depth, instead of stabilizing the conflict as it does in ordinary warfare, merely causes a sort of harmonic motion up and down the field. This business goes on either until the war-clubs have accomplished their work, which...
Added to these incentives are are the discontent of returned colored troops with traditional living conditions south of the Mason-Dixon line, the breakdown of the contract labor system, recent crop failures and general agricultural bankruptcy among Southern planters. " The wonder is," remarks The New York Globe, " that the Negro did not walk out long...
...claim to distinction rests with his importation of a German general and other officers (in spite of the Versailles Treaty). These officers put the entire Bolivian army under the guard of armed irregular forces. They also established a nationwide system of espionage which is said to be a wonder of perfection...
...curricula, but he admires teaching personality. He once knew a teacher himself. " And since the personality of the various men in the teaching force of the city is in the long run rather more important than the personality of the Mayor, the Comptroller or any of the Aldermen, we wonder just what philosophy of news has conferred anonymity upon them quite so completely...