Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the recent attempt upon the President-elect's life, several of us who are subscribers to your magazine have been discussing this and wonder just what the constitutional procedure would be if by some tragedy both the President-elect and Vice President-elect were to be accidentally killed, between the meeting of the electoral college and the following March 4. As there would be no Secretary-of-State, would a new general election be necessary...
...heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...pure elixir, the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed production committee is cause for wonder...
...extolls; it is simple, homely, realistic. It is a worker's drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little...
...There is little cause for wonder that the economics of this new world pass our understanding. The changes are of great variety and pervasiveness. Nor can they be predicted with any assurance...