Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation for this striking change is found in the fact that advertising as a profession is a brand new thing. What was once novelty has now become the daily work of hundreds of hard-headed business men, keen students of buying and selling psychology. No wonder, then, that in place of startling patterns and catchy phrases in periodical advertisements--the most convenient place to observe the metamorphosis of the new profession--we find delicate illustrations of real artistic merit, explained by well-chosen words of a literary turn. The appeal today is based on something more than novelty; it rests...
...about this time of the year that the University authorities begin to wonder about the amount of spare window glass in and around New Haven. As the temperature descends, so, sooner or later, the snow is bound to descend with it. And THEN snowballs...
...Players scarcely need the apology of "Stock, you know." In a part that almost acts itself, Florence Roberts adds something of her own, and makes one wonder what more even Beryl Mercer could have done. She should be a charming "old lady shows her medals"; her affected aristocracy is far more real than that of the true Laidy in the last act. One can't help wanting to believe her beautiful lies. Ralph Remley, her son, literally takes the house by storm; if he would forget about shouting into the balcony, his acting would fill the part well. A noticeable...
...wonder then that the press blazed away with the sensational news of her naval demands. It did not understand the French and their ways, while the French did not understand the press and its possibilities. Mr. Abbott's article restores our previous optimism. France is not insincere and she does not intend to block progress. She has made an unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding the environment that has done much to accomplish things in Washington; let us not make an even more unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding France and her motives...
...forced to wonder whether the method of award is entirely satisfactory. Entrance examinations are at best a mere indication of whether a man has the groundwork for a college education. They are in no way a test of his fitness to build on that groundwork--his character or his abstract ability to study. They have long been accepted grudgingly as a necessary evil; one of their worst faults is an incentive to study for the examinations rather than for knowledge, and this undesirable feature the Phi Beta Kappa prize would seem to emphasize...