Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
...steel requirements and tariffs of foreign nations. So when in the panic year of 1893 he got his promotion to the general managership, he could go abroad to sell his products. Outside of the U. S. he sold one-half of the 1893 output of his plant, to the wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president of the U. S. Steel Products Co., the exporting agent of the parent U. S. Steel...
After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
...grain of truth in them, were circulated by certain people out of malice. Even my good wife, one of the gentlest and most modest of women, did not escape these false reports. It was falsely whispered, and I believe even maliciously printed, that when the Queen had expressed her wonder at New York, pronouncing it one of the most...
With sleet and examinations forcing continued cave dwelling the undergraduate, gazing at obscure texts and obscure days of the D.W. Griffith variety occasionally wonders both at the texts and the days. Aristotle has admitted that man is "a thinking being"--and the undergraduate--Mr. Mencken notwithstanding--is usually a man. So while the logs leap into flame or the tries to make them, his wonder becomes fused into a definite inquiry: why, after all, is he here, looking so very glum while the sun shines on other fields and making hay is so delightfully easy...