Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what was going on a short distance outside of space during the week which preceded the beginning of time. TIME almost knows that, however, and wonder at the comprehensive material presented in the soul of wit of its welcomed weekly pages. . . . Being an idealist with a desire to see everybody excepting myself good and correct at all times I observed an error of statement in a recent number of TIME. According to the editor breeding places of all but four of our North American birds were known. I naturally asked about Ross's goose which had been left...
...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...
SKAZKI-Ida Zeitlin-Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen-Doran ($5). The title of this book sounds not at all like a sneeze when you know how to pronounce it, and means "wonder-tale" or "folk-story" in Russian. The characters are chiefly ancient Russian royalty, tsars and tsarinas, involved in marvelous episodes with their good, bad and mysterious subjects...
...dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...game of the season did much to recast the optimism of returning Nassau students Amherst hell Captain Davis eleven to a 14 to 7 score, but it was not until a Washington and Lee eleven came out of the south to deadlock the Tiger that football prophets began to wonder. The Navy sank the Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom at Princeton were...