Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the acclaim which has greeted Harvard's method of using Mrs. Nicman's million dollar gift, we wonder. . . . We wonder how journalists will feel, after a year's study at Harvard upon "such subjects as they desire" when they are forced to compress and distort their knowledge to fit "hot news" and the style books...
...wonder if you would do me a great favor?" he said...
...Henie, had recently sustained a slight concussion when she toppled onto her head during the filming of Happy Landing, Garden officials promptly cabled Lloyd's of London to ask for a $250,000 accident-insurance policy. Of the long procession of sport figures-from Dempsey to Vast, the wonder horse-who had preceded 24-year-old Sonja in Madison Square Garden's five-decade history, not one had ever been considered worthy of such a precaution...
...blessings of peace are so apparent, the terrors of war so appalling that it is small wonder Americans are prone to let the wish be parent to the thought and to dream of isolation from terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while the world rushes to destruction, it would be a convincing moral argument indeed which would persuade us to leave that sanctuary. But if, in the end, we are to be dragged, however unwillingly, into the conflict, it is shortsighted policy which prevents us from exerting our tremendous force on the side...
...photographs, machines-all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence...