Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remainder of this appeal to the faithful really smacks too much of the sawdust trail oratory of the camp meeting revivalist to merit much comment. But nevertheless I can not but wonder if the men I knew who died in France would have been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle...
...indubitable that barefoot Neolithic sprinters tore through the fields and underbrush in violent competition ages before the laced sandals of Spartan contestants were to be seen pounding along mountain roads in prolonged endurance tests; and the modern spiked shoe is stiil further removed from those vigorous days. The wonder of all this is that each year, each week, produces new records, the old achievements being displaced by reduced time, the most ancient of sports being improved upon with startling regularity...
...failing franc creates such situations in French politics as strike the AngloSaxon with wonder. M. Briand has supplied the latest turn by switching parties while keeping his seat as Premier. The circumstance illustrates an emergency where French vacillations have provided a continuous administration in a case where the rigid two party system in Britain would have forced a break. But one cannot say that the exception does not prove the rule...
...that wonder worker, he had him brought before him and after he had tried him, they took him and crucified him according to their ancestral custom...
John Teagle, his father and a successful oil man of Cleveland, stopped that notion, told his boy to go to work. Young Teagle did -for his father- and learned every department of the oil business. He has an infinite capacity for absorbing detail; so there was no wonder when he became vice president of the Republic Oil Co. at its organization in 1900. He went into the foreign field, became the great expert on oil export that he is. This eventually gained him the presidency of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...