Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hastily gobbling "one egg" at the Waldorf, or strolling to Music 4, who has chanced to wonder what Galli-Curci eats at that selfsame hour? What student of English 35a would not be unlifted for having enjoyed Billy Sunday's conception of manna? Even the sleepy, rising late after an evening's enjoyment, might ponder while drinking their coffee, whether Otis Skinner were up yet, and whether he'd ask for one lump...
When the President embarked for Europe the Dean regretted that, as a parting salute he had been unable to fire twenty-one undergraduates. As the Administrative Board met Tuesday in its post-Midyear session, I wonder what ceremonies the Office has in mind to welcome the President's return. U. PHONIUS...
...clock this evening in Pierce Hall a moving picture on welding entitled "Oxygen--the Wonder Woxkect will be presented under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. Professor A. S. Kinsey, head of the Department of Shop Practice at Stevens Institute of Technology, will speak during the showing of the pictures...
...What the children of the nation need is hard, simple fare. This is doctrine which will soon have nervous prostration from overwork. When so many are now condemning the schools for teaching frills instead of ramming home the R's with a poker, it is well to pause and wonder where the individual child comes...
...acceptance of the position of football, coach at Columbia by Percy D. Haughton, and the success of his system under Robert T. Fisher at Harvard, leads one to wonder what would happen if a Fisher-coached team met a Haughton-coached team. It is like trying to conceive of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The mind has visions of a scoreless game and darkness closing down on the field. In desperation the two coaches rush out and advise their respective teams. Mr. Haughton whispers to the quarterback; a most remarkable play is carried through, except that the pigskin...