Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such a standard obtaining--certainly the highest prevailing in any of the learned professions--it is small wonder that so many young men, from all walks of life, continue to make clamor today at the gates of our law schools and continue to seek, after gaining such training as they may, formal admission to the bar. Beyond question the real income which actually awaits many of the less competent and less highly trained men will never rise as high as the $18,634 average just now reported. We doubt very much whether the professional earnings...
...movement from the pulpit have gained Dr. Straton nation-wide prominence as the leader of the Fundamentalists. Modern dancing, in his booklet titled "The Dance of Death," is denounced as degenerate and destructive to the moral fiber of a nation, and the spectacle of a prize fight makes him wonder if we have again "relapsed into Paganism...
...Caillaux, Marshal Lyautey is the living embodiment of the relentlessly active proconsuls of Roman times. He is never still. Rising at 6:30, it is his custom to work restlessly through a long day, conferring with his subordinates even at dinner, making plans late in the evening. His friends wonder if he will "break" with the sudden lifting of the pressure of affairs...
...American people. Even those of us who submit most tamely to the ignominy of self-service feel vaguely alarmed at the increasingly rapid disappearance of the waiter from our modern times. Obviously something must be done about it; and as we slop coffee over an ill-balanced tray we wonder what...
...accomplished only eleven times in history. During the Michigan game he handled the ball 21 times, gained 355 yards. In the last two years he has taken the ball 244 times, gained 2,424 yards?an average of almost 10 yards per start. This fall he captains Illinois. What wonder, then, that small boys as well as grave, grizzled coaches, have found a new paragon...