Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin, on the northeast side of Red Square, there stands a strange old building, sometimes plastered with the likenesses of Lenin and Stalin. The outside of the building is like a wedding cake, but within, there are so many modern corridors and pillared halls that the casual visitor might wonder whether to say a prayer or catch a train...
Soon Dhanalakshmi was being called "The Wonder Girl of Coorg." and Coorg politicians badgered the Health Ministry into allocating 1,200 rupees for a study of Dhanalakshmi in Bangalore's Victoria
...tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach to the problems of world leadership, to increase Americans' capacity to hate and suspect one another. A policy of divide the nation and conquer Congress is short-sighted strategy. It is probably short-sighted tactics too, for such incidents make us wonder whether Eisenhower or the junior Senator from Wisconsin will be the general of the conquering army...
...have the happy fortune to be married to a gentleman and a scholar, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge sort of man, and I hope that he will stay "useless and lovable . . ." Isn't it odd that Mr. Coleridge is still read and admired after over a hundred years? I wonder who's going to remember the backslapping Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carnegie...
...most hardened gut seeker in Raphael Demos philosophy classes finds that the lecturer has sneaked across the rudiments of western philosophy to an intellectually calloused mind. I can't understand it, one freshman groaned. "Every time I look at a table or a cat, or a telephone. I wonder what its prefection is in Plato's world of forms...