Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shea or Russell or Robart--for Mayor" replaces "I do not choose to run in 1928" as the up-to-date decoration of local automobiles. Torchlight parades give the Square a ghoulish light, as hundreds of horns send their echoes across the Yard. Earnest students in Widener scowl, and wonder vaguely what it is all about. It is the first Cambridge political campaign in many years that has caused them to speculate...
...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
...office which Edwards Herrick Childs, appointed receiver in charge of Mr. Booth's affairs, had taken over. The inactive broker's clients, who bobbed up to an amazing total of 100, were sending in claims for over $1,000,000 worth of securities & cash. No wonder Mr. Booth had planned to end it all. All day long frantic creditors surged into the office at No. 120 Broadway...
There he spoke with mild wonder of a short visit to Atlantic City calculated to lengthen, not abbreviate, his life; deplored the fact that his creditors had "come down so hard" on him, assured everyone that the embezzlement charges brought by a Mrs. Jennie C. H. Denton, who claimed $150,000, need not have been pushed so vigorously; promised: "If I can only get time to do it, I can make these debts good...
...international symposium enterprise of the Phillips Brooke House, there is a valid excuse for a formal segregation of the foreign students from the entire group. This is not merely a social gathering at which differences of national feeling are extracted and exhibited to the wonder and amusement of the native sons. It can rather be a sincere expression of an intelligently heterogeneous group and as such a incalculable value to everyone concerned...