Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down through the ages, surgeons have used hammer and chisel, a variety of butchers' saws, and something like poultry shears whenever their work has forced them to tackle the difficult job of cutting through bone. Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word. And it was small wonder last week, when 2,500 sawbones swarmed into Miami Beach for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, that what interested them most was a new and versatile drill saw that promised to ease their bone-sawing work even...
...this makes St. Mike's sure that its two-world formula is a first-rate cure for provincialism in Catholic education. Is there any good reason, many college administrators wonder, why in an age of ecumenicism similar Catholic colleges could not be set up at private U.S. universities...
Yamasaki's approach to architecture than his reaction to two architectural wonders during a trip to India in 1954. The first wonder was the Taj Mahal, with its inlays of marble and its inexhaustible detail. From a distance it was "a vision," but as Yamasaki approached it, the vision seemed to get richer. Finally, "you go through this narrow deep gate, opening in total shadow. You emerge beyond the wall into the sharp contrast of a peaceful and silent setting, and there is the gleaming Taj Mahal in front of you. Then you walk along the fabled pools, then...
Fool & Poet. Alexander Pope was such a compulsive feudsman the wonder is that he had time to write at all. Small (4 ft. 6 in.), sickly, and morbidly sensitive, he despised the world with fine impartiality, managing to skewer 63 "major" enemies in his verses and more minor ones than anybody cared to count. But he always had venom to spare for Colley Gibber, the actor-turned-playwright who improbably became the poet laureate of England. Of Gibber's appointment, Pope wrote...
Sutherland described himself as "delighted as a taxpayer, but bewildered as a citizen of the United States" by the tax proposals. The prospects of increased government spending accompanying lower taxes caused him to wonder "how we can solve our problems without imposing sacrifices upon ourselves...