Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will round out half a century of competition this year will be struggling to surpass records which in many instances are world marks. Yet a glance through the early summaries reveals that the improvement has been slow and sure and the gradual increase in speed and distance makes one wonder just what marks can be reached by competitors...
...Harvard Fund has met with immediate and general approval among the Harvard men of the Northwest, and the wonder seems to be that the plan did not suggest itself long ago. It is making a special appeal to many men of smaller means who have not felt themselves in a position to make any substantial contribution to the University, but who welcome the opportunity to give an annual amount which in their minds will be the equivalent of the annual interest on the larger sum which they would like to feel themselves in a position to contribute some...
Dabbling in Pascal* the other day, I ran across a few lines that recalled strikingly a paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only...
After reading the article beginning at the bottom of col. 2, p. 21 of TIME for April 19, I am led to wonder whether the writer of that article has ever been in California...
...twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded to see them motionless. They still hung, however, in their usual case just as before; here was another mystery greater than the first...