Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other items on the list which create sensations of considerable wonder are 41 odd shoes and one inner tube...
...rather strange that an institution, theoretically self-respecting, should care to maintain such a breeding place for corruption. I wonder if the doctors who condemn Freshmen to "corrective exercise" know what Hemenway is like...
Unkindest cut of all, it was a Yale man Donald Ogden Stewart of Yale who adapted the original "Brown" to the screen. Written by Radcliffe, revamped by Yale. Any one knowing what a Harvard student thinks of these two contemporary centers of learning will not wonder that the CRIMSON reviewer, while realizing the futility of bombarding the inanimate screen, still holds that the projection of even a strictly fresh egg would help tremendously in relieving the feelings. Chicago Tribune...
...other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work are the ailments affecting the present generation of vocal students. When I was a student every waking hour was spent in study. Now there seem to be so many diverting influences that it is a wonder singers are produced at all. To become a great singer one must first have the voice and then one must have the determination to learn every trick in using it. Great singers are produced ever so slowly...
...indicted for modernity's most prevalent shortcoming: emotional anemia induced by self-seeking and self-indulgence. The book is far too finely executed to be referred to solely as a moral essay. It is an intricate story sensitively told. Yet many readers will bethink themselves of many Cynthias and wonder if it is too late, or just timely, to pass the book along...