Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Kittredge also showed that Claudius was originally a worthy opponent to Hamlet, but that his lines had been cut to such an extent on the modern stage that he seems comparatively weak. "This," he said in conclusion, "gives us a bad impression of Hamlet, making us wonder why he did not sweep his opponent aside more easily...
...Yale-Harvard football game of 1922. We call a game of football clean when the participants avoid dirty play. If in the violence of the contest, one or two men lose for a moment their self-control. We are inclined to forgive them. At some games we wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with one another in generous treatment of their rivals...
...Cour's miracle-working process of autosuggestion is based on the discovery that whenever the imagination and the will are in conflict it is the imagination which wins. And when we think that over the wonder is that we aren't all Dr. Coues...
...cutting another netch on the door after fifty years of activity, the CRIMSON, like its three-years junior, the Lampoon, can claim the distinction of looking down on Life itself. But like most semi-centarians, the CRIMSON finds little time to sit back and wonder whether or not its existence has been futile; there is too much to be done. An anniversary is an occasion to be remembered, not a rite to be religiously carried our in the spirit of the past...
...Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...