Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every day in the year, and-wonder of wonders-a rail connection with the seaport Guayaquil...
...were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably be hinted at again in the message to Congress, viz.: a Federal farm loan fund, further encouragement of co-operative marketing associations, further reliance upon the protective tariff. "Sometimes I wonder," said the President, "if gatherings of farmers are not a little tired of hearing discussions of farm relief." ¶ Apropos President Coolidge's dutiful diligence in the closing months of his administration, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan of the arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune ventured a respectful semi-prophecy...
Hysterical survivors filled the press with stories of leaking lifeboats, faulty tackle, indifference of officers, mutinous and incompetent crew. Capt. William J. Carey went down with his ship; but those who watched him on the bridge, taciturn, deaf to questions and pleas, wonder why he deferred SOS until 20 hours after danger became apparent...
...stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia familiarly as "Tovaristch" and that the kindly, bearded face of Kalinin will wrinkle in a warm, genuine smile when he greets the humble guest "Tovaristch" in return. No wonder the Son-of-Ivan has been steadily reelected President* since 1919. No wonder his heart was sore, last week, when Dictator Joseph Stalin proposed in Isvestia to deal at "Rich Peasants" a ruthless "destructive blow...
DECEPTION in offensive football has been carried to a superlative degree by Pennsylvania. The principle is simple enough. Keep the ball hidden from the other fellow and he doesn't know where it is going. It is little wonder that the Columbia players were deceived by it Saturday, because it was next to impossible to detect who had the ball from the side lines with the aid of binoculars...