Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that on Saturday two Dartmouth players and one member of the Harvard team collided with the wooden fence i the Stadium hard enough to necessitate a time out makes one wonder why it is necessary for such a hazard to remain. It seems remarkable that no one has been hurt in this way before, and there is no reason to believe that some one may not be seriously injured in the future. A canvas fence with padded posts would serve all the requirements of the present fence, and greatly reduce the danger of serious injury to the players...
...players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures when no spy-glass can discern them unless the play is within a few yards? The Associated Press is not to be blamed for discovering one Barry in the Harvard squad: the wonder is that the newsmen spotted the players as well as they...
...PITKINS CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE INFORMATION TIME OCT 7 AND THAT OF MR TUMULTY IN A POSITION TO KNOW MOST INTIMATELY REGARDING THE IMMORTAL WILSON WHO CREATED MOST OF HIS ENEMIES BY HIS ABILITY TO JUDGE BETWEEN FORWARD LOOKING MEN AND THOSE OF THE OPPOSITE TYPE IT IS SURPRISING THAT MANY WONDER IF COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE REALLY UNDER PAID STOP...
Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
...referring to the particular moment, she could have said nothing truer. Actresses come to Boston and find so many old friends. They stretched in a spiral queue from her door at the Hollis Theatre Monday night. One woman said: "Mrs. Fiske, my baby's just outside. I wonder if you'd like to come...