Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the government, the brotherhoods, and the railroad presidents fill the front pages of the daily papers with long discussions as to why the railroad strike is impossible, how it will be won, or how thwarted, the general public is beginning to wonder how it will travel next month. The problem is particularly acute among Harvard undergraduates because of a certain date that the large majority of them have made for the fifth of November. The strike is to start, if it ever does, on the first of the month; the unions predict victory by the tenth; the railroads...
...members of the New Heaven faculty made public his discovery that the reason why Yale teams were less successful than in the past was that their diet lacked the necessary strength-giving constituents, or vitamins. The connection between these two facts could not be more obvious. We no longer wonder why such deference was shown to a careful of old stones; for these stones are to be set up in the heart of the college to grind the corn that will make the "pone" which will make Yale athletes grow strong again...
Such is Dean Laycock's proposition; but what does it really amount to? It does not apply to college rooms, to regulations regarding college studies, and only partially to cuts. One is tempted to wonder, too, if a student can obtain all the desires of his heart merely by insisting that they are reasonable. At any rate, it seems that "abolutely free men" is a little too broad a phrase...
...plan to solve the problem of the New England railroads is greeted with enthusiasm by the Boston newspapers. There is reason in this; from coal shortage to lack of passenger trains the conditions of transportation in this section of the United States are always critical. It is small wonder that every suggested remedy should be given full attention in spite of the fact that most of them have failed to stand the test of practice...
...attempt on the part of the United Mine Workers to get control of the policy of all of organized labor. There is undoubtedly a crisis in the affairs of the Federation; the election of Mr. Lewis may well mean an almost complete change of methods and aims. No wonder then that developments are awaited with the greatest interest...