Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder then, if, when the bell in the old, white cupola of Harvard Hall tolls at the hour of 9, my fellow vagabonds may see me enter classroom 1 to hear Professor Gay lecture in Economics 2 on Transportation since 1860. Ordinarily this is not a matter of much moment to a vagabond, but today the problem of transportation is very close to my heart...
...place in Cambridge, Mass, during the American struggle for independence. Instead of football games, the undergraduates spend their spare time fighting the revolutionary war on our own campus. You feel that if you wandered very far from the Yard, you would begin to hear the booming of British guns. Wonder of wonders, there is a very real plot, involving a spy, and a beautiful woman suspected of being a spy, and an undergraduate who has fall-on in love with an actress (proving that this is an old story after all.) At times, your correspondent was actually ready to throw...
Philosophy is studied systematically and historically. In the first case it is divided into metaphysics, ethics and logics. Metaphysics is devoted to an examination of the essential nature of reality. It has a history extending far back into Greece, and farther into ancient India, where people first began to wonder what the panorama of Nature with all its manifestations might mean, and what might be man's place in the cosmical scheme. The problem of orienting oneself in regard to the totality of Nature is an important one. Metaphysics by itself is dealt with by Prof. Hocking in Philosophy...
...Weisbord's recent threat to call a strike of school children unless the officers abandon Cossack methods is an example of the mental position which have led to stern riots and sterner repressions. For the moment one wonder at this unreasonable boycott which would harm the laborer more than the capitalist. The heat of strife has blinded the leader, who is himself a product of higher education, in the permanent avenue of escape for his followers offered by intelligent preparation for solving problems...
Many a prurient and self-righteous U. S. racing pilot cried: "No wonder the A. A. A. socked him with a spanner! No Roumanian wop-frog who's livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right...