Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally I wonder where the Policeman was in all the weeks of the petty persecution. It was deplorable...
...Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself was beginning: to wonder. He had hit the ball hard before. It had gone out. He hit it twice as hard. It went in. His Partner picked up heart, and assisted by the errors of erratic Williams, they ran out the set 8-6 added the next to their score...
...will of the player. Again, the reflector can return to the strings a large part of the energy imparted by the player's fingers. Inventor Hammond held, at his home in Gloucester, Mass., a demonstration of a regulation instrument fitted with his invention. Famed musicians composers, expressed their wonder. Said Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...automobile was Inventor Francis P. Houdina's American Wonder, controlled by radio waves sent from a following car. Two sets of waves were used, caught by antennae on the Wonder's tonneau, introduced to circuit-breakers operating small electric motors, which in turn operated steering wheel, clutch, brake, gears, horn...
...place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that the directors of the Franco-Rumanian line announced last week that their passenger and freight traffic had multiplied by five in the past year...