Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little mining town of Herrin aroused the whole U. S., not many years since, with the story of a mining massacre perpetrated in the course of a strike. Intermittently since then it has been the scene of strife and of murder, until the world has begun to wonder whether Herrin will not soon be as uninhabited as the table where the hie gingham dog and the onetime calico...
While in London he worked hard, practiced the art of oratory, was "a constant votary of the play." At the age of 17 he won a scholarship at Balliol and from then on the whole of his 'varsity life was literally one honor after another. Small wonder that his contemporaries predicted great things for him. But, though he was successful at Oxford, his success at the bar, while not so swift, gave him the surest foundation for his political career. As a young barrister he reached the pinnacle of his fame in his able management of the great case...
...obtain, to escape her, and has brought unusual powers of detection to bear in discovering, and as unusual powers of understanding in interpreting. Recently, in New York City for a brief rest, during the course of which she lectured at Columbia University, she seemed a trifle tired. Small wonder! Visualize if you can the amount of physical work involved in correcting proofs and verifying quotations in a two-volume work of 600 pages...
From earliest times the eclipse has been an occasion of awe and wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...
...large an endowment cannot keep its tuition fee down to a level within the reach of everyone who wishes to take advantage of its peculiar educational traditions. They will probably feel that they are being made to bear an additional expense which is properly not theirs, and they will wonder why the authorities find it necessary to raise the tuition fifty per cent in five years--from two hundred dollars in 1920-1921 to three hundred dollars...