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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warning signals are already being posted by the Proctors in the Freshman Dormitories. Student advisers, if they happen to remember, add their share to the chorus. And the trembling Freshman wonder with awe about these "November hours" that occur so mysteriously in October while the confident and carefree Freshman is urged to tremble by his mentors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORM WARNINGS | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

...Judith Earle she has come early to an artist's isolation, her past has already made the "one great circle." Then to the question "What next?" her book is the answer-dusty like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann is the daughter of English R. C. Lehmann, famed oarsman, noted writer, member of the staff of Punch; she is a cousin of Owen Davis, famed U. S. playwright. Bred in Bourne End, England, she studied at Cambridge, published one poem in a magazine, then this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Dusty Answer | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...other hand, if the decrease in enrollment is not traceable to the motor edict, the university will have same cause for wonder. It would seem that the circumstance must reflect discredit on either the attitude of the incoming freshmen or on the university authorities for some unknown cause. It is to be wondered which of the alternatives is the more salutary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTOR ATAXIA | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

...murmur of "I told you so," went up. Boris was looking for an English girl of aristocratic parentage, of which there were scores eligible. But those who knew smiled, recalled the young King's sentiments not long ago expressed: "Bulgaria cannot afford a Queen. I sometimes wonder if she can afford a King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Count Rilski Abroad | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...casual visitor will probably wonder what is the Phillips Brooks House; and wander on without finding out, but for the new student facing four years of exposure to its various activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEEK DESCRIBES P. B. H. ACTIVITIES | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

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