Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I meditate on the awful junk that I carry around in my pouch masquerading under the name of "magazines" and so forth, I often wonder why apparently sane people do not take the $5 that they annually spend for a number of worthless publications, and concentrate that amount on a subscription to TIME. Every time I've sent you 55 I have received $95 worth of knowledge...
...transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took the trail blazed by Admiral Bristol...
With 130,000 Rotarians and nearly as many Rotary Anns behind him, and 8,000 of them actually crying "On to Ostend" last week, what wonder that founder Paul Percy Harris writes...
...sensitive about such matters the true Bostonian is, how sincerely the readers of the Transcript feel such a blow, this item of news shadows the flight of Lindbergh, makes the flood a mere incident, and destroys the importance of Bozo's return to this hub of greater Boston. Small wonder that sleepless heads beat upon the blanched pillow of Beacon Hill; that hatred of Sacco and his partner in disaster faded as this news flashed. Many even forgot the fight to remove the Chevrolet sign from Park Square as they meditated upon the myth of Mary...
...most of all did my roommate like the fairies. His eyes opened with wonder at their gay, flowing robes, their merry whirl about the gleaming rod, pendent by their teeth. I, on the contrary was filled with worry. Once such a trapeze artist had broken that bridge, and out had come filling, artist and all. How sad and bad and mad it was, and yet . . I got some message out of it. For did not a lion tamer carry the poor artist from the arena amid cries of applauding multitudes who thought this a part of the show...