Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have appeared criticizing our Campus are not doing damage, because they are not convincing. Nobody takes them seriously. A joke on ourselves is to be laughed at--when it is a good joke. But when invention tires, and the articles become fiat repetitions we do yawn a little and wonder why the editors allow such obvious space-fillers to clutter up their columns.--The Yale News
...Cooperative store; in others, prices are so high as to be prohibitive. In desperation the student turns to the library, only to find that every copy of the book is out,--usually returnable on some date after the reading is due. Under such difficulties it is little wonder that he sometimes does his work by proxy or neglects it altogether...
Speaking of the Jewish problem we can easily ignore Mr. Henry Ford, but we cannot afford to ignore Mr. G. K. Chesterton and his latest book, "The New Jerusalem." Mr. Chesterton has been acclaimed as what is popularly called an anti-Semite. I wonder if Mr. Chesterton has ever accepted that designation given him by some offended Jews. I can never think of him as an anti-Semite, for I always find that his views on the Jews, if only properly understood, properly modified, supplemented, and placed in their right setting, are not far from my own. I rather take...
...name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved a liar after a day or two of dazzling front page existence. Is it any wonder that serious people advocate a jail sentence for false confessions which 'put the police to so much trouble for nothing...
...Aristocrat." To the rest of us, such a form of pleasure may seem to be a rather expensive one; but then, we are not budding geniuses or embryo laureates who will go to any lengths in search of some means of "self-expression". The bourgeoisie can only watch and wonder...