Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class fighting for its existence; but in an age when nationalism is looked upon as an inexplicable but perverse disease which attacks whole peoples and leads them to force their reluctant leaders to make war upon any nation which they, the people, designate, it is no matter of wonder that any such simple, if harshly true, explanation is rejected universally...
...local constabulary. The objection that such an innovation would represent a harmful access of unwonted luxury is absurd: the member of Adams House, who finds an exotic and almost tropical luxuriation of unmentionable facilities off the gold room, to the left of his dining hall, has good reason to wonder why the University declines to make more practical and less expensive arrangements for the convenience of its wards...
...architecture so that one need never feel ill at ease in the most angular of skyscrapers, or the most exclusive of modernistic salons. What is more, not merely does he display all these works of art, but he sells them to his class. The sleepy auditor is apt to wonder whether he is listening to the dean of the architectural school teaching Fine Arts, or Joseph P. Day auctioning off the Metropolitan Museum. Accordingly, this course is the dilettante's delight. For the socially ambitious sophomore who would charm the tea-tables of Brattle street, it is an unavoidable requirement...
Sleepy old Wittenberg-the town of Martin Luther who made it the cradle of the Reformation-snapped to attention last week at a new Nazi wonder...
Still his friends helped him, but now there was a posse after him. Clint headed into the back hills and began to wonder if he would ever get away. When his adoring cousin Nance found his hideout, bringing him supplies and more shotgun shells, he was mighty grateful, but when she spent the night with him he knew there was no help for him now. Cornered with Nance in the old cave where his uncle's still had been, Clint made a last stand, had the supreme satisfaction of killing Ed Prather before they...