Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Joe, a clerk "but there has been a decided decrease. Yes, that is absolutely so. We have had between 25 and 50 men a day less than usual. I'm sure I don't know where they all eat, if they eat at all, which seems doubtful. "No wonder," he added with a laugh, "no wonder they couldn't make Memorial Hall...
...Three thousand members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see Page 15) appeared in the White House grounds. The President addressed them from the south portico, saying: "You are the wonder-workers of all the ages. . . . We trust ourselves to you, perhaps with some doubt as to what you many finally do with us and to us, but at least with firm convictions that your activities will save life .from becoming very monotonous. And, besides, we realize that if we did not give you our confidence, you would go ahead without...
...When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"-no wonder that it [a baby] awoke in the night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children...
...East, the younger East, enjoys winter. . . . The older East detests it. It longs for Florida and California. And no wonder! What have they here to live...
Your description of her father as a cripple moves her to wonder if she is needed to come and care...