Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people will ever agree as to what individual songs should be put in such a collection. Some will lament the absence of close-agony gems such as 'Rebecca" and "My Old Kentucky Home." Some may wonder how "Over the Banister" and the "Song of the Life-Boat Men" happened to survive the qualifying round. The present reviewer is not inclined to set himself up as arbiter in a matter in which individual tastes are so various. He is content to call attention to the fact that Harvard has needed such a song-book for a long time, that the Glee...
...made public. Fifty planes were to approach Berlin from all directions, guiding aerial torpedoes which would continue to the city while the pilots returned to their own lines. Blowing up Berlin was undoubtedly the conception of a high mind at an inspired moment. Well may the rest of humanity wonder why such an idea never occurred to anybody else during the war; it is thus with all inventions. When once suggested, they look obvious. Often, to be sure, an inspiration comes to two separate men simultaneously. But this time the honor remains with America, the first country to make public...
...would not expect to have a Liberty bond canceled", he continued, "and no more do I expect' to see the French and British debt to us repudiated. It is futile to wonder what the effect of canceling these loans would be on American business, because they will never be canceled...
...home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds that throng the grandstands are so ill-mannered and when there are among the spectators so many poor sportsmen? --Boston Transcript...
...question. But unfortunately, undergraduates have not the corresponding privilege of taking, two courses announced for the same hour. Under most circumstances such an arrangement is quite natural and wholly unobjectionable; yet now and again the impossibility of being in two places at once becomes annoying and makes one wonder whether the authors of the leaflet could not make some allowance...