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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the London Daily Mail: "We wonder why people cannot learn to attend to their own business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Potpourri | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...died, and for several years his sister used to send me five dollars to give to some student who could not go home for Christmas Day. Recently, one of the men to whom I gave the five dollars returned, and gave me back the five dollars doubled. Now, I wonder if you would feel hurt if I should ask you to accept the ten dollars which he just gave me." To my dying day, I shall always wonder how Dean Briggs knew of my financial condition, for, as far as I can recall, this was the only time he spoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE LIFE EOR THE UNDERGRADUATE WHO EARNS HIS BREAD DESCRIBED BY A PROFESSOR WHO PLAYED JACK OF ALL TRADES | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

...until the seventh inning, it was a great game for the University. On the long end of a 2 to 1 score, finding the renowned Carroll no such enigma as in the past, and having played a flawless game in the field, it was little wonder that those Crimson enthusiasts who travelled to the blistering Fitton Field at Worcester should think back to the home run that won the last Crimson victory over the Purple in 1920. The last two frames did much to disillusion those who were so venturesome as to hope for victory, but the whole game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRORS IN SEVENTH GIVE WIN TO PURPLE | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...variability of New England weather is recorded by Mark Twain in the minutiae of its changes, but some new epic singer must be found to record the heroic changes of yesterday. No wonder the New England temperament is so firm and unyielding; it has been molded by disgust for the climate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER MUTABILE | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...desire to eat--that human frailty which is so universally toadied to we can but scantily satisfy it. Certain of the undergraduates have their eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day", and wonder why their appetites are not so good as formerly. Charge accounts are unknown: there are too many students for the proprietors to take any risk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD CAN NO MORE BE COMPARED TO WILLIAMS THAN AN ELEPHANT TO A ROSE" | 5/29/1925 | See Source »

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